One day, must have been around the New Year, I asked my Dad why the College Football Bowl Games had such crazy names: the Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Gator Bowl, etc. He told me that they used whatever object was in the title of the game as a substitute ball. For example, for the Rose Bowl a rose was used, for the Orange Bowl a bag of oranges was used and for the Gator Bowl, a baby alligator was attached by its teeth to the players jersey who would then run up the field with it. As a child of 6 or 7 it sounded pretty logical to me. And the sad part is I don't think I realized he was pulling my leg for about 10 years after that!
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Super Bowl was a bowling tournament.— Angela
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- I used to think the Super Bowl was a huge bowling tournament.Anon
- I used to believe that toilet seats were for kids only and that adults sat directly on the bowl. — Evan Klyne
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila