A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : IT'S ALL MANDATORY EQUIPMENT.Byline: Tom Hoffarth There are certain items one must have during a football season. A television, for starters. Then there are the less obvious, but equally essential: ``Perelman's College Football Companion'' ($14.95, Perelman Pioneer & Company, 634 pages). In just a 4-inch-by-6-inch manual, this packs more information per square inch than any other sports guide known to a fan. Produced by UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX football statistician Rich Perelman, it includes things like two-deep rosters with jersey numbers for every 112 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A team, a recap of the '97 season and a complete TV schedule. A companion? It's more like a marriage made in college football heaven. The book can be ordered by phone at (323) 965-4900, by e-mail at perelmancoaol.com or by mail at Perelman Pioneer & Company, P.O. Box 67B99, Century City Station, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Calif., 90067. Heat-seeking foam footballs. Hard to describe, but well worth the pursuit. A company in Maryland called Toytech Creations has a Nerf-like two-tone football on the market called the ``Chameleon Color Change Ball,'' going for $4.99. When you hold it, the color changes from the heat of your hand. The dark blue and orange one we found at the toy store A toy store, or toy shop, is a retail business specializing in the services of selling toys. No longer held to the limitations of the brick and mortar outlet, the toy store has successfully created a presence within the e-commerce industry. changes to tie-dyed looking turquoise and yellow after a few tosses. Maybe you have to be there. Bobbing-head NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga cards. Randomly inserted into packs of the new UD Choice series ($1.29 for a 12-card pack) issued by Upper Deck are cards that can be punched out, folded, bent and pinched into a unique little bobbing head of your favorite player. There's a one-in-four chance of a pack having the card, and 30 players in all, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the fine print. There's an even better chance of someone buying out a box to find that Elway card. A football-shaped remote control. Something long overdue, a company called Interactive Processing (800-522-6888) has one out for $29.95. It's about the size of a potato with two rows of buttons on it for the usual things like changing channels and volume. It seems to lack the universal remote convenience of running the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. with play and rewind, but that's like finding fault in the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa La Gioconda, da Vinci’s enchanting portrait. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190] See : Beauty, Lasting Mona Lisa enigmatic smile beguiles and bewilders. [Ital. . Use it and smile. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) no caption (Cover of `Perelman's College Football Companion') (2) no caption (Cover of `Upper Deck Choice Football Cards') |
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