I grew up in the New Orleans area, where our football team is the Saints. My father was, and still is, a die-hard Saints fan, and as a result, I often heard a great deal about the local team. Well, as a child, when I heard about the holiday All Saints Day, I believed that it was a day to commemorate the athletes playing on our local football team.

Miss Mustard

I used to think that running cross-country meant you ran across the entire nation!

Anon

i used to believe the quarterback was second in command (what an idiot i was)

Anon

My dad used to ride a motorcycle & surf, but i had this wierd belief that surfers & motorcylists were currently in an epic street battle against each other, like rival gangs.

I was always worried about daddy when he would surf or ride his bike that someone would shoot him for being a traitor.

ShannonOfDoom

My brother thought the white powder used by weightlifters to help them grip the weights was the ashes of the Olympic flame.

This was because at the 1984 games the containers used to hold the chalk dust looks just like the flame bowl at the stadium.

Richard Davies

I used to think everyone competed in the olympics.

jo

wen i was around 6-7 i used to think during playing a game of CRICKET..when a batsman hits the ball VERY high in the air..GOD catches the ball and gives the batsman a 100 runs:D..how random..

Anon

When I was younger, I first heard that my brother needed 'fit' for a cup for baseball. Needless to say, I always pictured him standing with an old lady who placed a rather large styrofoam cup on his head that was brightly decorated and him smiling up at it as if it were 'just the right size.'

STFUgo-bot

I used to believe that in baseball, every time a player crossed home plate and scored that it was a home run. After all, they did "run home."

Anon

when i was really young, my dad took me to a New York Knicks game. They were doing really bad, and everyone was silent. then the screen that said "make some noise" came up. I was cheering my head off, thinking that I was making the bar raise my myself (i looked liked an idiot around everyone else). It took me about3 years to realize that the screen went the meter went up on its own

Mike

When I was around 12, I thought that the nosebleed section of venues or stadiums was for people like me who frequently got nosebleeds. I envisioned a section of people with handkerchiefs held to their noses, paramedics nearby, just freely bleeding while enjoying a concert or a baseball game.

Gabrielle

when i was little i thought vollyball was bollyball

stephanie

when i was in primary school i was told thats the school had bats flying around the place. At the time i thought they meant wooden rounders bats that had wings and could flyand thought it rather strange. Years later i remembered this and realised how stupid i was.

Martin

I thought that soccer moms were moms that played soccer!

Anon

There was a nuclear power plant near my grandparent's farm. I though it was a really tall baseball stadium.

Me

I used to believe that when somebody did something really well, they were rewarded by getting to break a record (LP).

It was both fun and forbidden, so who wouldn't do something tremendous in order to break a record.

mark

that Sam Maguire was a player on the team! Not a cup!

Anon

My brother convinced me that in a football match consisting of two legs, players in the first leg had to use their left leg only, and then in the second leg use their right.

Anon

I'm an American, and for a good long while I thought that Boxing Day involved the sport of boxing.

miss Taken