The Ken King Jersey Discussion Thread

[Coach]

I like the cuff patch idea. But god, they gotta wear the vintages full time. There is just no other way.

[Madman]

Credit to the creator of that logo thingy, but it looks like a flaming violin or a tramp stamp or a flaming violin tramp stamp.

Why do we need a shoulder patch at all?

[Joborule]

I don't think it looks good as shoulder patch. Works best as logo above name.

[Flame Man12]

I think their current jerseys are great and I LOVE the shoulder patches and I am not from Alberta so not biased by territory.

[LiquorPig]

Somebody call Don Draper. End this .

[playmaker]

ok here's the updated version of my concept with improved lettering and some minor changes

I'm working on my own shoulder patch so stay tuned.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I like the cuff patch idea. But god, they gotta wear the vintages full time. There is just no other way.

Ya, its to the point now where whenever they wear their normal, black C unis at home, that it just looks drab after a game in the retros. They're so dark its sometimes hard to even differentiate the black from the red from far away, I love how flashy the retros are in comparison.

[calgaryred]

Black is lame, really miss the retro whites, love to see the team go back to the old school uniform full time.

[Cole436]

I was trying to think of a way to honour both generations of iconic Flames jerseys, and this is my shot. What do you guys think?

[RedMileDJ]

^ I like!

Anything that has a BLACK "C" and letter is awesome, in my books.

[Otto-matic]

Only problem is Black Letters will never work on any home jersey, Its way to hard for anyone to read.

[Cole436]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

Only problem is Black Letters will never work on any home jersey, Its way to hard for anyone to read.

fixed

[RedMileDJ]

I just realized that black lettering would be hard to read.

But keep the black numbers and "C." Looks sharp!

[MisterJoji]

Is not bring able to read the names all that important? 99% of hockey fans can identify players by their numbers anyway.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by MisterJoji

Is not bring able to read the names all that important? 99% of hockey fans can identify players by their numbers anyway.

Ideally yes, but if I recall correctly the Flames had a backlash from the media and fans when they ran black lettering on the 04 Homes when they first came out.

[browna]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

Ideally yes, but if I recall correctly the Flames had a backlash from the media and fans when they ran black lettering on the 04 Homes when they first came out.

From the ones that said the music is too loud and there's a draft in the Saddledome. The numbers being 5x the size of the lettering should be all that was needed to identify players from afar.

Full respect to anyone I see at the 'Dome that has those, as most of those are preorders, sight unseen from summer 2003. The team wearing those on the ice lasted between 10-12 home games in 2003 (they wore them Nov 22 2003 as per the picture below, but by Dec 1 2003, they were white letters), although for the next few months after you could still get the Flames to put on black letters instead of white at the Fan Attic

Regardless, the jersey, for continuity sake, was originally designed with black letters as that went with the black shoulder and back numbers and went with the black C, same outlining and everything. But the black numbers and C stayed, and that's always sort of bugged me, at least the numbers staying black. (as much as something like that can). Though the Flames had a chance to redo that with the Edge style jerseys, though they just kept using the stockpile they had of the same number and name font from the 2004 jerseys.

That's why if and when the Flames do do a new jersey, the name and number font are changed (they first appeared 15 years ago) and the coloring issue is standardized.

[Trailer Fire]

I love the remodel of the tower. That was way better than my original. The idea to use it on the cuff or above the name on the back was gold. Pure and simple. I agree it doesn't quite work as a shoulder patch, but hey, we tried, and some pretty great ideas were rolled out.

I think, maybe, for a cuff logo it's a little too complex. The Jackets have a star. Nice and simple. Sadly I think RBK wouldn't let us replace their logo with the tower.

[Cheerio]

The Oilers don't do much right but they absolutely made the right call in going back to the retro unis full time and I'd like the Flames to follow suit. The retros look much better than the regular homes and I think a retro away would look really good. If teams still wore white at home, I would suggest a London Knights style off white jersey like these

[Otto-matic]

Something I quickly whipped up, it looks horrible right now - not sure what to do with the sleeves.

[Split98]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

The Oilers don't do much right but they absolutely made the right call in going back to the retro unis full time and I'd like the Flames to follow suit. The retros look much better than the regular homes and I think a retro away would look really good. If teams still wore white at home, I would suggest a London Knights style off white jersey like these

Frikken' LOVE our off whites!