The Stampeders have an all-time record of 33-11 (regular and post-season) while wearing their black jerseys, good for a .750 winning percentage.

The Stamps were the first Canadian Football League team to introduce a permanent third jersey when they unveiled black jerseys for the Labour Day Classic on Sept. 6, 1994. They capped the occasion with a 48-15 win over Edmonton.

Calgary played its first black-jersey playoff game in the 1998 West Division final and defeated Edmonton. A week later, while again sporting black, the Stamps beat Hamilton 26-24 in the Grey Cup.

The mystique of the third top continued a year later. The Stamps warmed up for a regular-season game against the BC Lions in their traditional red tops, but when the team was introduced, players ran out of the locker-room wearing a re-designed black jersey. The Stamps went on to defeat the Lions 14-1, marking their sixth straight victory in black and improving their regular-season record to 11-4 in an alternate black jersey. The streak ended at eight games with a loss in the 2000 West final.

As part of a league-wide initiative, the Stamps unveiled new Reebok jerseys in 2005 and wore the revamped black alternate jersey on Sept. 5 — a 25-23 loss to Edmonton. Updated black jerseys were released in 2014.

In June 2011, the Stamps introduced a new black helmet to wear during road games. The black helmets were dropped prior to the 2019 season when the league introduced a one-shell rule.

History of the black jersey