When I was little, my dad told me that football was the game of god(he didn't mean it ,he just loved football).For years after ward I thought the winners went to heaven and the losers went to hell.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- 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 used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!— Andy