... are plastic chips with stick on label player pictures on one side and chip shot logo on the reverse. They were issued in 1997 as inserts to packs of Playoff football cards.

There are two varieties, with three colors of each variety, plus an assortment of miscellaneous chips.

The Absolute set contains 200 players in each of three basic colors (black, red and blue), with the players randomly distributed among the three colors. The background on the label is silver.

The First and Ten set contains 250 players in each of three basic colors (green, yellow and red). The first 200 are the same as the Absolutes, then there are 50 additional players available in First and Ten set only. The background on the label is white. The high numbered chips (201-250) seem to be harder to find, but have no premium in the football card catalogs.

There was a special set of seven unnumbered Green Bay Packers issued for distribution in Shopko stores (something like K-mart, I think). They are all yellow First and Ten chips.

Thus, there are a total of 1357 different chips available, of which I have 1265.

There were also a number of chips (not sure how many) issued as "samples". They have SAMPLE in large letters on the reverse. I have six samples; all are on red Absolute chips. Five of the six have First and Ten style player labels with the white background; only one has the absolute silver background. Oddly, five of the samples also have different player photographs than the chips in the regular set.

I also have a few "error" chips, which have the first and ten labels on absolute chips, but have never seen one vice versa.

Finally, I have about 1000 duplicates, split fairly evenly between Absolute and First and Ten chips.

The attached scan shows, left to right, a Red absolute (front on top, reverse on bottom), a yellow First and Ten (ditto), the front of a Shopko Packer (top) and the reverse of a sample (bottom).

BTW, Rene, now that I know what you have, no need to try to scan them for me!!
----- jim o\-S