My dad watched a lot of football when I was little. Although it didn't interest me much, one phrase stuck in my mind. Whenever the Dolphins were playing, I always wondered why the announcer kept talking about his "ammie". "My ammie scored a touchdown". "My ammie fumbled". Etc. I wondered if this was a nickname for his grandmother, and what she had to do with football.
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
- 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
- I used to think that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football player.— Wendy
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ