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Originally Posted by P-DAZZLE
I think it's interesting how much of a trend and how accepted this is right now. I don't think there's any time before in sports where this has been routine. I know a lot of teams used to have designs for specific occasions but maintain the same uniform over time. For example, the Bruins thirds in the 90s while keeping the familiar staples for home and away. Now it seems like a lot of teams are going back to more original or historically notable designs. In hockey it's huge. In football I can think of the 49ers going back to more original striping on their jerseys. In basketball a lot of teams have gone back to original colours (76ers, Jazz). It's also definitely a NA thing. Football and rugby teams in Europe change their jerseys pretty much yearly.
It seems to me it's hard to change your design after going back to a previous one. It's kind of like saying you've decided you can't do better, so going forward you can't really try to innovate or improve other than perhaps with third designs.
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Fair point but I could still see them changing again even if they go back to retros, very few teams have static jerseys and someone will come along in X years and try to improve it or generate more sales, or tastes will shift.
Fine with alterations to the original jerseys if desired but personally find it really lame when teams add or change primary colors or logos, thank god the Flames haven't done that at least. I think most teams that do it don't have much to be proud of in their history (like the Canucks for example).
For the Flames, original colors, we won the cup and had our best era by far in the "retros" so for me I have the best associations with that color scheme, I think it looks better (subjectively) and I wish they had never changed to begin with. Get that many grew up with the black so that's sacred for them but for me it was trying to be trendy in the 90s during an era where everyone was adding black or a black third jersey - thank god they didn't add teal at least I guess.
But regardless of your take on black in the color scheme, we can all agree that the current jerseys are brutal with all the piping and mismatched patches, let's get something new and fresh in here.