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

I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .

JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]

After seeing Space Jam, I was convinced that I would find Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes if I looked in a golf hole. I never persuaded my dad to take me to a golf course to check this.

Rachel

I used to believe that golf holes were infinitely deep, and that when a player hit ball into one, it fell forever into some faraware abyss, never to be retrieved again.

Mike

I used to believe that the winners of big sporting events like the World Series or Superbowl were actually "World Champions" and were somehow bestowed some type of high level political power like a seat at the United Nations or something like that. They worked in conjunction with winners of other events like Miss Universe to make sure the world was in order.

Sammy

I used to believe that there was only one cheerleader on a cheerleading team, because there was only one leader. So I was very impressed when a lot of my friends told me they were cheerleaders. I just supposed the other people on the team were cheerers.

Anon

When i was younger, i used to think that all golf courses were called Green Fees, i never realised that it meant anyone could play.

silly blonde child

when my sister was little she thought that in order to do gymnastics, you had to find a gym first that did nastics.

Anon

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

We lived near a huge sports stadium in Melbourne (the M.C.G) and back in the day giant plastic trumpet-type horns were popular in the crowd. When the footy was on and the wind was travelling in the right direction we could hear the crowd going mental and blowing these horns each time someone kicked a goal. My sister and I firmly believed they were trying to contact us, we would spend hours on the porch yelling at them full volume until we heard the horns sound, then we'd get scared and run inside. About a minute later we'd overcome our fear and resume yelling. This occurred every Friday night for six months of the year, much to our parents dismay.

Steve

Before I was old enough to read "big books" I thought that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football coach who was physically challenged.

Lou

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 ride my bike so that I could be seen clearly from the road. I thought I was an excellent bike rider and it was just a matter of time before some professional bike scouts would see me out riding and think, "Hey, that girl's got real talent." Of course, I would have to leave my family behind and train day and night in the sport of bike riding, but that was a sacrifice I was willing to take. Never happened. Could be because I lived on the outskirts of a VERY small town and there were no bike riding scouts there.

DahDoll

When my sister was little, she believed that all footballers were brothers and that's why they hugged after scoring goals.

Natalia

When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.

Angie

When I was young, my brother, who was 3 years older than me & played baseball, once said that his team got to use the "big diamond" for the next game. For quite some time I imagined this Little League team using a huge, shiny, precious gemstone... and was a little envious.

Randy

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

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

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

Jamie

when i was little i thought that all sports balls had evil spirits inside them. if i turned a corner and say a ping pong ball was in the center or the floor, my superstitious mind would convince me that something terrible was about to happen.

shasta, ky