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The 1996 Playoff Contenders football set. Considering all cards were available in the same packs, why are they here under two different listings?
For example: 1996 Playoff Contenders Leather is the base set, with Air Command, Ground Hogs, Honors and Pennant Flyers as subsets.
For the rest of the set, you have to look up 1996 Playoff Contenders Pennants - Open Field, where the pennant cards are the base and the foils are the subset.
My opinion is that the set title should be 1996 Playoff Contenders using the leather cards as the base with everything else as a subset.

 By the way, it took me several years, but I did succeed in completing the leather, foil and pennant card sets! For the last card needed, I drove an hour to the card store to pick it up. I brought my 3 ring binder with all the other cards in it to show the owner.

With the Pennants do you know what the significance of noting the color of the logo? (Green, Red, Purple) I noticed yes that is the color they used for those cards, but did they make them variants? It seems that they were pretty consistent with using the same color scheme for each player within a team and tried to match up with team colors. I don't see why it was noted. If they had 2 or 3 parallels that switched the colors I could see adding that. It is like going to the 1975 Baseball and noting the different border color combinations, the All-Star cards were usually yellow on top with red on the bottom, the '74 Highlights cards were Orange top with Brown bottom.

And currently at $65 a box for 12 3-card packs, that's an accomplishment!

It looks like Beckett has it listed incorrectly, and however we got info put in here, followed suit. The packs seem to have been configured with a leather, a pennant, and an Open Field (with a couple inserts because it was 1996). Not sure which would be the 'base' set and which would be the parallel(s).

From the respective pages on Beckett:

The 1996 Playoff Contenders Pennants set was issued in one series totalling 100 cards. The three-card packs retail for $6.99 each, and contained one Pennant, one parallel Open Field Foil, and one parallel Leather card.

The 1996 Playoff Contenders Leather set was issued in one series totalling 100 cards. The three-card packs retail for $6.99 each, and contained one Leather, one parallel Pennant, and one parallel Open Field card.

They are basically describing the same packs in both. As shown in the picture above, it was one product: Playoff Contenders.

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Looks like the colors indicate relative scarcity for the issues with red being the most rare (1:22), purple (1:11), and green being the most common.