I used to think that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football player.

Wendy

I used to believe that parachuting was when a person jumped out of an airplane and a bunch of people were standing at the bottom holding out a parachute and he landed on it and was safe.

Michelle

I used to think when a baseball player got a "walk", it meant he had to walk instead of run when he hit the ball, thereby increasing his chance of getting caught out.

Brandon Campbell

(Australian spacific)

When we where young my father told my younger brother that he would not be allowed to go to the football (aussie rules) unless he could eat a Meat Pie with his hands without spilling any or becoming messy. (this can be quite difficult with the cheap pies that you get at the footy. He was told this to encourage better eating habbits/skills, You are not Australian unless you can do this :-)

Years later we went to see Gelong play, My brother stoped at the turn table where the ticket man stood. He wouldn't move,
My father said "Come on, other people want to get through",
"But he hasn't asked me the question yet." James replied,
Dad looked baffled, "What Question?"
"About the Pie,"
"Huh? what pie!?, come on, your holding up the queue"
"If can eat it without a knife and fork"
"Huh?, Oh... That's not really true, come on, your allowed in," said my father, then similing at the Ticket guy,

Paul

Can't believe no one put this already, since it was common knowledge among all my friends. I used to believe that the core of a golf ball was a highly toxic poison that would kill you.

Anon

I grew up in Berkeley, California a fan of the University of California Golden Bears football and basketball teams. My father told me that Golden Bears used to exist and the last one was shot by a Russian hunter on the eventual site of the Cal football stadium is today. Into my early teen years I believed that bears with golden colored fur once roamed Northern California.

Richard

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

This is kind of a fitting statment i think. I remeber being around 12 and watching the olypics, when the power lifting came on. We were watching the various events, when my mother reffered to one of them as "The Cleveland Jerk", obviously she was in fact reffering to "The Clean & Jerk" - I wonder how many years she had been calling it that.

David.

My uncle is a big fan of basball, and when I was about 5 or 6 we watched a video of him playing baseball when he was in high-school. When he hit a "home-run" my little 6 year old brain thought everyone was yelling, "hard on". Somehow no one ever knew I thought this or just never corrected me, so boy did I surprise my first baseball coach when I told him I could hit hard ons every time I played!!

Leanna

In the NBA basketball, when the team needed to take time-outs, I thought they did something wrong and they have to be grounded.

Anon

For a very long time I believed that skydivers were just floating in the air. After all, it didn't LOOK like they were falling incredibly fast.

Andrew

As a child I used to watch a bit of soccer/football on TV. I knew they had the red card, which meant you were in serious trouble and the yellow card, which meant you were in a bit of trouble. But I was also convinced there was a green card, which the referee would only get out if you'd been really good. I never did see them use it, though...

Roskva

I thought that the Whitewater rafting was founded by President Bill Clinton after I've learned abour his whitewater scandal!

Anon

I used to believe that the Soccer Wordl Championship "Italia 90" was called so cause a game lasts 90 minuts, and not because we were actually on the year 1990.

ceskita

I used to think when a baseball player stole a base, he literally picked up and carried the base with him, so when the other team was at bat, they wouldn't be able to stop there and they would have to try and keep running to the next base after that, thereby increasing their chances of getting tagged out.

Brandon Campbell

When I was a child, my father always watched hockey games on T.V. When there were fights during the game and a player was in the penalty box, it was called the "man advantage," for the team without the penalty. I always thought it was called the "mad advantage," because the players were so mad they would fight each other.

Cathy

I used to think everyone competed in the olympics.

jo

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

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

for the first 15 years of my life my dad convinced me that the whole 'quinnella' and 'trifecta' at the horse races..were horses..until i realised...'gee those horses must be old by now' i am still 15

Amy