My brother used to believe that the object of tennis was to hit the net because everyone cheered when it happened.

Naff

As a youngster I attended many Milwaukee Braves baseball games at County Stadium. At the end of the national anthem when they sang "and the home of the brave" I thought it was "and the home of the Braves", in Chicago they would sing "and the home of the Cubs", and so on for each team.

Ray

My brother would play softball with my sister and me in the yard when we were little (he pitched). When either of us hit the ball, he'd pick it up, run over, and "tag" 2nd base and tell us we had to "stay on first--that was in the rules." I don't remember ever winning a game against him.

Anon

My dad used to lay tile. He joked that he would make it to the Olympics and compete in tile-laying, and I thought there really was such an event in the Olympics.

Cindy

I used to think that only chinese fat guys can Sum wrestle and that it was illegal if he wasnt asian.

sumo

When I watched a curling game on the movie newsreel, I thought it was played on a waxed floor rather than on ice.

Anon

The first time I saw professional boxing on television I was 5 years old. I believed that the fighter's were putting their teeth back in before a fight started and that they were angry at being without clothing. I was almost 10 when I actually tried boxing first hand and realized that my teeth and mouthguard both fit in my mouth, still I refused to let the other man get me in my underpants

Michael

I used to believe that the American baseball team, The Baltimore Orioles, were actually called the Baltimore Oreos, after the chocolate cookies. Somebody told me that it was Oriole, and that an Oriole was a bird. I got confused and thought that the birds were called Oreos.

Willow

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

miss Taken

I thought that soccer moms were moms that played soccer!

Anon

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 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 was a smart kid, so when I was thinking about the Olympics I noted that they were held in a different city every time. Given that the number of cities in the world is limited, I wondered how much would I have to wait until the Olympics were held in our small town.

Felipe

i used to think that a'quarterback' was some guy who ran around with a giant quarter on his back! i was dumb

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My nephew Matthew used to believe that the catcher from the Mets Mike Piazza, was named MikeEazza, it was th cutess thing ever.

Anon

When we were kids we used to do football quizzes about the english football league. Every now and again the question 'Who is the only non english team to win the FA Cup? The answer is Cardiff but a mate of mine always always would say Walsall, he thought it was Warsaw in Poland not Walsall near Birmingham.

Nik Pearce

I used to be a great Cricket Fan. When i was a child, i always believed that when a batsman gets out, he infact dies and becomes the past. So whenever my country's batsman would get out, i used to start weeping bitterly. [lolzzz]

Ali

When I was in 6th grade, I believed that in baseball, if you hit a home run, you'd get 7 points instead of 1, because running all the bases counted more than just running from 3rd to home. I envisioned as similar to a touchdown, which I also believed at the time was 7, not 6 points.

CN

I grew up in Boston, and one time when I went to a Red Sox game with my parents, I asked them if we could go sit out in the bleachers. They said no because people "smoke pot" there. So, I though if we went to the bleachers, everyone would be sitting there holding smoking pots.

Chris from California

you know the ten-foot line that they have for volleyball courts? I used to think that when you were playing basketball, if you shot from that line your team would score "ten" points. I actually tried to make a shot all the way from there in the last second of one of my basketball games. My angry teamates hastily corrected me.

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