I used to look at baseball games in summer in the States, and it were years before I understood that the players did NOT bat in order of who was the best on the team down to the worst -- I assumed the best fellow led off cos my favourite player did, of course!

ms boods

As I child growing up in the seventies in south east London I would see NF sprayed everywhere. I used to wonder why there were so many Nottingham Forrest supporters in London. I think my mum must have told me that's what it meant as it really stands National Front which was an obnoxious far-right political party.

Zoe

When I was young I couldn't understand why on earth my mum would want to stand on a bridge with three strangers once a week - well that's what I thought she did when she "played Bridge"!

Ed T

When I was a kid they would put the name of football team West Bromwich Albion on TV as West Brom Albion, yet the presenter still said West Bromwich Albion. I, naively, assumed Albion was pronounced idge-albion [I was a kid] and naturally thought that Brighton and Hove Albion was pronounced Brighton and Hove idge-albion.

Mart from Withdean [home to Brighton and Hove idge-albion]

I was very insistent that Grand Prix was pronounced Grand PRICKS

I would argue with my parents all the time that it couldn't possible be pronounced the way they said it was.

Kathleen

As a small child I would sit with my mother to watch the afternoon horse racing on our T.V. She did not bet but took a very keen interest in form. Mother was nonplussed when I asked her why they made the poor horse named "Bar" run in every race. I felt it was no wonder his odds were so poor- the poor thing must have been exhausted. Not only was he in every race but he was at every meeting.
Mother obviously thought the joke too good to waste so did not explain that 20 to 1 bar is betting shorthand. I am embarrassed to say I was in my twenties before the penny dropped.

Kim

I used to believe the 'autographs' of famous athletes on baseball bats and basketballs were real. I thought they must be very valuable and so you shouldn't use them.

queeneve

When I was at school, my teacher told me that Rugby Union was more demanding than Rugby League. How embarrassing to play my first Rugby League game and find out - the painful way - that I wasn't as strong, as skilful or as talented as I thought I was, Ouch!

Daniel

When I was a kid growing up in England I used to watch a sports show on Saturday mornings. They had steeple racing and when the jockeys fell sometimes their hats fell off and landed right side up on the ground. I actually thought that the jockeys had sunk into the soft mud and couldn't figure out why no one was trying to help them. Yes I am weird!

Carl

My dad was an avid golfer.He would go golfing even if it was raining outside. He always said that it never rains on the golf course. One day during a terrible thunder and lightning rain storm, I was so scared that I kept asking my mother to take me to the golf course ( where my father was at). Finally my mother asked me why I wanted to go to the golf course. I told her what my dad had told me... Then she explained what my father meant and that it does rain there.

Valerie

When I was little I used to be a huge wrestling fan. This was back when Gordon Solie and Freddie Miller were popular announcers. Sometimes when a wrestling match would start they'd introduce a wrestler and say he was from "Parts Unknown". When I was little I thought they said something like "Partsanon". I remember asking my mom several times where "Partsanon" was. LOL.

Anon

Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.

Jamie

i asked my father what a turkey shoot was. he told me they threw them up in the air and you shoot the down. i belived that.

margie