1986 DairyPak NFL Players Superstars Series Football Forum

I have this card. with Red lettering

I also have the exact same card with Yellow lettering

ERR - VAR - Different SET. ????

While I cannot confirm this is an exhaustive list, there's somewhere in the ballpark of aqua, black, dark blue, light blue, brown, green, lavender, orange, purple, red. Probably more colors out there and a zillon different brands of cartons if you start looking at 'un-cut' cartons...

so I guess a VARIATION?

Each dairy company would usually have a matching color to their brand's carton color.  I went through a lot of milk in 1986.

If you look at Packaging you'll see my whole carton.

Parallel?

But there's not really a base set color.

Not a variation. Would be parallel.  These are like MSA products.  They weren't released by DairyPak, they were the carton producers.  They were released by numerous different dairy companies, each had the color of their choice.

True, but from what I've seen red was the most common color.  It really doesn't matter which is chosen as the base set color.  Much like the McDonald's colored tabs on their cards.

Of course, Admin can set it up so there is no base set, just all parallels.

Bounty13 wrote:

Parallel?

But there's not really a base set color.

BOBSCARDZ wrote:

so I guess a VARIATION?

OK, really good info. I went on to find more YELLOW lettering.

So, since these YELLOW cards aren't listed yet they do exist, How do I proceed? Request ALL PARALLELS? Leave RED as base set and request a YELLOW PARALLEL?

Just LMK, the preference. ~Bob~

Here's a link talking about the various colors and the actual printing process which might be the reason there are so many different ones:

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1296333

If Packsux has uncovered a great resource; I would go RED LETTERING as the base set and add any other color you find as a VARIATION. If you go with ALL parallels you could be looking at 25+ sets.

So in my case, I'm entering mine into the established RED set, and request a VARIATION be added for Anthony Carter, Yellow Lettering.