While watching a football game on TV, I once asked my dad why there was a net between the goal posts. He said that it was to keep the ball from being eaten by the crazed fans in the seats. So, for a good decade, I thought that people at football games would get so excited that if a ball went into the stands, they would tear it to shreds and eat the pieces. Fortunately, this was well before we started hearing about "soccer hooligans" in the states, otherwise I might never have realized that he didn't mean literally eaten.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!— Andy
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.— Angie
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.— Sam