when i watched grandstand on a saturday, i used to think that if you came last in the 4th division at the end of the season, you would get releagated to the scottish first division

kernow

I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!

Andy

When i was small the main things i knew about my dad was that he played a lot of sport and had a big moustache. For a very long time i thought my dad was both Ian Rush and Daley Thompson and told my friends that my dad was on Grandstand. In reality my dad was playing in the pub league in Devon and has never done the decathalon.

angela

when I saw a skiing event on TV, I figured that it must have taken place on a big cloud because of the white stuff everywhere. I don't know how old I was then, but I probably had not seen much snow until then.
So when I was outside and the sky was cloudy, I always tried to spot if someone was skiing down the cloud hills.

no success. ever.

oliver

i used to think in golf you needed the highest score to win until some guy told me that it was the lowest score who won. i thought i had always won when me and my family used to play putt putt. i was like 7 or 8.

Anon

A friend beleived that when a parachutist went from freefall to "under canopy" they went up rather than down for a while. She was 25 at the time

Anon

I used to believe that you had to sit in the splitz to ride a kayak!

Anna

I use to believe that a Quarterback was a refund.

Clueless

When I was little, I believed that (american) football players' bodies were really shaped as they appear on the field. I never personally saw anyone shaped like that, but I thought that's because only famous people could play football, and I didn't know anyone famous. (I only ever saw football on TV, and I thought only famous people were on TV.) When I was in 2nd grade, my brother was then old enough to play jr. high football--I was surprised to learn about the shoulder and leg pads.

cheryl h

my girlfriends kid ryan always thought that when golfers teed off they yelled fart instead of four .This was amusing for some time

timmy poo

When watching Hockey games the announcers would always say "he shoots, He scores!" well i always thought the announcer was saying "Pachutesy scores!!" Until one day when I asked my brother how Pachutesy was on every team, he couldn't stop laughing long enough to tell me. I figured out eventually on my own Pachutesy is not a player.

jennee

when i was little i thought that "play ball" was part of the national anthem... because that's always what they say at baseball games.. "o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave... play ball!"

Emily

i used to think that mascots of sports teams were like pets and that the players in the teams had turns of taking them home

Anon

I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.

Anon

I used to believe that the numbers athletes wore on their uniforms were their ages.

Sara

i watched a lot of football with my dad when i was really little. he spoke with a chinese accent and whenever someone dropped the football, he would get really excited a shout. it wasn't until much later that i realized that instead of shouting "PHONE BALL!!" (like the ones we saw at the electronics store) he was shouting "fumble"

Anon

As a child who had not yet found the public library, I assumed that "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was a football story.

Kathy

when I was beginning to learn about cricket I thought the batsman at the bowlers end was there to hit the ball away from the stumps if the facing batsman hit it straight back down the pitch.

Jock

I used to believe that the Super Bowl was a bowling tournament.

Angela

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