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http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2014-panini-super-bowl-xlviii-champions-football-cards

I don't see this set yet added to the database.  Would it be a box set or team set? Based on the description of sets, I'm inclined to think this is a box set. 

The description says it is sold via blister pack, so I'd be inclined to lean more towards a team set, especially being it is all cards from one team. But on the very next line they call it a "18-card factory set".

Probably best to let others weigh in on it though, kind of an apples and oranges kind of thing.

Thanks Doc.

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This is not a team-set for 2 reasons. #1 - There are versions that include up to 4 different teams.. #2 - There are actually 3 versions of that set. I almost want to say this should be considered a promo set, but I can't really go that far yet.

So I lean towards it being listed as a solo set wth 2 parallels. I don't know which one should be considered the base set though. Not the Champions set, for sure. That is easily a parallel. The base set would probably be the 40-card set that includes Seahawks, Broncos, Giants and Jets. The parallels would be the set without the NY teams and the Champions version. JMO and everyone can have an opinion. I'd like to hear others' thought on this.

Starting to dislike Panini even more, wish they'd go back to just doing their sticker thing.

Oddball set? Promo maybe?

IN my book they are two separate sets, yet similar design seeing as one was produced before the game of Super Bowl 48 as a commemorative set. and this one noted is of the team that won the Super Bowl.

The Pre-Game set: which celebrates the competing teams (Broncos and Seahawks) and the "host" teams Giants/Jets. If the set had been produced the year before for SB 47 they would have used the Ravens and 49ers as the competing teams and the Saints as the "host" team, with a Ravens Champion set produced after the game results. And for 2015 they for SB 49 they would have used the Patriots and Seahawks with the hosting Cardinals.

http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2014-panini-super-bowl-xlviii-collection-football-cards  

The Seatle only set: I would call a team set.

 http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2014-panini-super-bowl-xlviii-champions-football-cards

Hmmm someone has the Broncos from the "full" set listed here as a team set.

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewAllSet.cfm/sid/92173/2014-Panini-Super-Bowl-XLVIII-Denver-Broncos 

So they look like multi-parallel sets in appearance, but to have a parallel set you should have a standard base set to have everything based on.

Good thoughts everyone, this is certainly a tricky situation.  What's even more tricky is that in the 40-card set, each team is given 10 cards and each "team set" has it's own numbers 1-10.  It's not a 40 numbered set.  You can see an example here: https://blog.paniniamerica.net/2014/01/21/hot-off-the-presses-panini-america-readies-commemorative-super-bowl-xlviii-sets/

It seems that the 40 card and 20 card sets feature the same cards for the Broncos/Seahawks but just one set includes the NY/NJ teams and the other doesnt.  

I think the 40 card set would be a base and the 20 card set would also be base.  It wouldn't seem to make sense to have the 20 card set be a base since it is the exact same cards.  But at the same time I can see people wanting to collect only their teams and given the overlapping numbering, Panini is almost treating each team's cards as it's invidual set.  

In 2015, Panini released Super Bowl XLIX cards and treated each team as separate sets: https://blog.paniniamerica.net/2015/01/19/panini-america-ready-to-celebrate-patriots-seahawks-with-super-bowl-xlix-card-set/