Rumor: Flames to Have New 3rd Jersey Next Year

[jaymac106]

Originally Posted by Darkknight

As per Ashasx request this should be closer to the shade you see in the jerseys now. Still don't think the numbers or lettering read that well. The second is a quick adjustment to the black/grey scale helps the numbers pop a bit more.

I think those both look really good, if only the number and name were more legible!

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by jaymac106

I think those both look really good, if only the number and name were more legible!

The only way to make the number and name legible on those is to change the colours, and then you're losing what makes them look so good to you.

The primary purpose of uniforms and numbers is to make the players easy to identify. The red-on-black design does not do that. Therefore, it is unfit to be used on a uniform. If the Flames wanted to release something like it purely for the fans to wear, they could do that — but if they tried to use it on the ice, the broadcasters and officials would quickly kill the experiment.

[Dion]

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by jaymac106

I think those both look really good, if only the number and name were more legible!

All you have to do is fill in the #'s with red. Not sure if that would take away from it though.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

All you have to do is fill in the #'s with red. Not sure if that would take away from it though.

Or be the first team to use fiber optics in their outlining. How cool would that be?
Would be a bugger to wash though.

[normtwofinger]

Just slap the CP logo on a Flames red blank jersey and call it a day. Heck, throw on Capn Crunch's mug as the shoulder patch.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Originally Posted by Dion

Spoiler!

I don't think Reebok will allow their logo over the name bar to be replaced. I love that patch though.

[Ashasx]

Cowboy hats and wheat.... nothing more Calgarian.

[Darkknight]

Made a couple of changes, played around with the arms and added a pinstripe to the letters, numbers and logo. Still carries a similar feel to the original and helps it read a bit better.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Darkknight

Made a couple of changes, played around with the arms and added a pinstripe to the letters, numbers and logo. Still carries a similar feel to the original and helps it ready a bit better.

The yellow does help the legibility, but I'm not sure it would be good enough for TV. (Or for fans sitting up in the nosebleeds.)

I can't help thinking of the kerfuffle in Toronto when the NHL first required player names on jerseys. Harold Ballard did not want names on the Leafs' jerseys, because he thought that would cut into sales of programs. (Why would you buy a program to find out who #10 is, when it tells you his name right there on his back?) The league insisted. So Ballard complied, but maliciously: he had the names stitched on in white lettering on the white jerseys, and in blue lettering on the blue jerseys. The league fined him and made him change the colours.

Because of that incident, I expect there is an official league policy requiring the letters and numbers to be in a contrasting colour. It isn't listed in the formal rules about uniforms, but Rule 9 does say that the colours have to be 'approved'. I am pretty certain that black numbers and letters on a black jersey would not be approved — no matter what colour of trim you put around the edges.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by Darkknight

Made a couple of changes, played around with the arms and added a pinstripe to the letters, numbers and logo. Still carries a similar feel to the original and helps it ready a bit better.

Not bad. But i don't like the maple leaf shoulder patch. It should be the Flaming horse IMO.

[djsFlames]

Awesome, awesome design. Would take these on home ice anyday.

[Ashasx]

Those are nice. Would be better without the colour fade.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Awesome, awesome design. Would take these on home ice anyday.

I like it, but the gradient stripes would be a pain in the toches to put on a real uniform.

[Howie_16]

I am thinking that the rumours of a yellow 3rd jersey for the Flames are supported by the current logo being used by the team in recent promotional materials.



Have the Flames ever used this particular colour combination with the Flaming C? Does the lack of yellow indicate that this will be used on a yellow background? Or does it mean that there will be no yellow in the new 3rd at all?

[Trailer Fire]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Awesome, awesome design. Would take these on home ice anyday.

Changed my mind.

The more I look at it, the more I like it, save the numbers and the shoulder patch. I really like the gradient idea. Its been used before, it can be used again.

Swap the yellow and red in the numbers and change the shoulder patch hats for the flaming tower (maybe?) Or something less gaudy.

[Howie_16]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

Canucks colours. No.

Only the yellow numbers look "Canuckish". Change the numbers to red with yellow trim, and that problem is solved.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Dion

That cowboy/wheat crest would make a pretty cool shoulder patch.

[Howie_16]

Originally Posted by Yamer

That cowboy/wheat crest would make a pretty cool shoulder patch.

Agreed. I would add mountains as well, if only to remind people this isn't Saskatchewan.

[sun]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Awesome, awesome design. Would take these on home ice anyday.