OFFBEAT : BOSTON GARDEN STUFF GOING ON AUCTION BLOCK.

Bring them your old, your tattered, your faded and your spindled. If you bring it, they will sell it.

Leland's, a New York auction house that will gavel off the remains of Boston Garden, wants to include fans' Garden-related artifacts in the farewell sell-off of the old building Sept. 27.

According to Leland's Michael Puzzo, the auction house's representatives will set up shop at the Sheraton Tara in Newton, Mass. June 8-9 and accept consignment pieces for the auction.

``A few weeks ago, someone contacted us and asked if we would accept a Bobby Orr Bruins jersey from the 1973-74 season,'' said Puzzo. ``It's a neat piece - it's the jersey he was wearing for the cover of his autobiography.''

The big auction, nearly a year to the day that the Garden gave way to the FleetCenter, will include such items as Red Auerbach's loge seat (smoking allowed), the huge scoreboard suspended from the rafters and the organ.

Garden auction catalogs, available in August, can be ordered now. Requests should go to Leland's, 245 Fifth Ave., Suite 902, New York, N.Y. 10016. Cost is $25 plus $3 handling.

Nitty-gritty on grits: The most unusual Atlanta guide to come out this Olympic summer isn't published by Fodor's, Frommer's or any of the other usual suspects.

Quaker Oats cooked this one up.

A six-page pamphlet, ``The Official Grits Guide to Atlanta,'' lists 21 local restaurants that serve grits, just in case all those international visitors get hungry for a taste of the South. The hominy houses run the gamut from traditional (cheese and grits at Mary Mac's Tea Room) to fusion (jalapeno grits at the Peachtree Cafe) to fancy (grits cakes at the Horseradish Grill, where the menu advertises that they use stone-ground grits, not Quaker).

Bulls market: Chicago Bulls fans have bought this season's slogan of ``72-10 - Don't mean a thing without the ring.''

For many, however, it doesn't mean much without a team jersey, jacket, baseball cap, key chain, shot glass and bumper sticker.

Slap a Chicago Bull on just about anything, and you've got a product that sucks up allowances and depletes checking accounts. Some normally sane adults spend $2,200 on a leather jacket that commemorates three Bulls championships.

Sports licensing is a $10-billion-a-year industry, with basketball bringing in about one-third of that. Since 1990, Bulls merchandise has been the league's top seller.

``I don't think the thirst for Bulls merchandise can ever be completely quenched. There will always be a new product with a Bulls' logo on it, lurking right around the corner,'' said Steve Schanwald, the Bulls' vice president of marketing.

Georgia on their minds: Moultrie, Ga., churches are raising money to help a couple of Georgians in town for Olympic training. These Georgians come from far away, though.

Gocha Cartaria, who is a diver, and his coach, Soso Elbakidze, are from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. They lost $1,000 in cash and two cameras in a burglary of the house where they were staying.

Rick Gehle of the Moultrie Parks and Recreation Department said churches are raising money to help the Georgians with expenses.

``We'll work things out, one way or another,'' he said. ``All they need money for is food. There is no cost for lodging, and use of the training facility is free.''

O.J. joke of the week: ``It was reported today that O.J. Simpson cheats at golf. It was also reported taht none of his partners call him on it.'' -- TV host Conan O'Brien

Sample of Kansas wit: ``Jim Ryun, the legendary runner, wants to be a member of Congress from Kansas He'll have to leave behind thougfhts of the 4-minute mile and learn how to do the 4-minute smile.'' -- Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star.