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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I am not surprised Blasty is so popular. There is a specific generation of fans who hate that jersey, and that is people who were mature when the Flames had all their 1980s and early 90s success.
Associating the jersey with a lack of success is not something I can do, indeed for some of us the Flames were their most 'successful' when the jersey was still in rotation (2004-06), before then I was too young to really care about the Flames at all.
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I think this hits the nail on the head.
I can tell you that as an ardent Flames fan when the Blasty jersey was released - and throughout the logo's entire tenure until 2003 - it was
painful to be a Flames fan. I don't know what it's like now, but back in the latter 90s, wearing Flames gear to junior high or high school would brand you as super lame. Super, super,
lame.
Beyond the association of that uniform with the worst period in Flames history is the fact that it was - itself - a product of desperation: an effort to repackage an awful product using a black uniform playbook that was relied upon heavily by other teams in the 90s. It's actually amazing they didn't call the logo "The Extreme C Stallion" and didn't partner with Doritos to market it.
Younger fans have the freedom to look at the uniforms and the logo itself in a somewhat more objective manner, as they don't have these associations. For those of us who suffered through 1998 to 2003 as mature fans of the team simply aren't so lucky.
That's why I was hopeful they'd really mix the logo up this time around - it might have given me a chance to like it, instead of having it trigger my amygdala into screaming "they may never win again!"
