I have the same problem on the forum:
http://www.ellennet.com/index.php/Forum/
The problem seams to be that the site has a dark lyout with light texts. (In my case white text and yellow links)
The Firebord template (and I have tried several) seams to partly have it's own colours, partly rely on the site template. The result could be a problem since the templates on Best of Joomla often are made on sites with light background and dark text.
The one I use now is one of the better for my site. But there are problems in the footer.
I do not want to make my own template or invent new css files. Neither can I change the site template css since it effects a lot of other pages. I need a way to go around it. Like a Fireboard template that both control the forum background and the foreground. This means that the Forum has it's own setting of colours.
Do you have such a template?