new jersey

if i had time, i would write a helluvalot more... this post will change as the day rolls along....

re: the new flames jersey---
i don't mind it, actually. unfortunately, i think the alberta flag is a slap in the face to the rest of canada, though, as it seems to somehow flaunt our current state of riches (aka: prosperity cheques). the maple leaf is a good addition on any canadian team jersey, in my opinon, especially a red one... i wish those shoulder patches were a bit smaller, though, cause they look like they were purchased at M.E.C for the backpacks of euro travellers...

in seeing what some of the other teams have done to their logos/jerseys, i'm pretty stoked with the way the flames have left ours. i think i like the black(home) and red(away) piping towards the sides and i'm unoffended by the stripes under the arms. i hate the new vancouver jersey & the new boston logo sucks, so i'm glad to be somewhere in the happy range, here.

there's some talk that a lot of teams will go back to striping on the side of the breezers, and i wonder if calgary will buy into that nonsense, or stick with the solid black of the last era. hopefully the latter...
****UPDATE: the flames went all out with the stripes, so instead of being sleek and streamlined from the waist down, they look a little like they got mauled by the vancouver canucks jersey of old (the flying V). and/or a wee bit too close to a german national team... oh, god, how STRIPEY !!!! :(

additionally, i'm not really sure how conroy became the flames poster boy, but i would have preferred lombo. is lombo too busy (read: pretty) ? i would think that somewhere in his five-year deal, iginla must have signed up to be the "face of the flames," and i'm therefore totally stumped how he came to get the day off...
*****UPDATE: apparently lombo WAS at the unveiling, as was dion... no sign of iggy. what's up with THAT ??!

in related (yet cryptic) news, can someone please tell me if entourage season 3 is out on dvd ??? someone said it was, i said it wasn't, with dinner on the line. ;)