the world: sport

I used to believe…

When watching Hockey games the announcers would always say "he shoots, He scores!" well i always thought the announcer was saying "Pachutesy scores!!" Until one day when I asked my brother how Pachutesy was on every team, he couldn't stop laughing long enough to tell me. I figured out eventually on my own Pachutesy is not a player.

I used to believe…

One day when I was about 8 we drove past a cricket field. When I asked my mum what the white screens were for she told me that they contained hidden cameras for spying on the crowd - yeah, nice one mum. I'm 30 now, but I still check my behaviour near those screens.

I used to believe…

my parents are avid football fans. i used to watch the game and i believed that i the point of the game was to chase after the person with the ball and rub his face into the ground.

I used to believe…

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!!

I used to believe…

you know the ten-foot line that they have for volleyball courts? I used to think that when you were playing basketball, if you shot from that line your team would score "ten" points. I actually tried to make a shot all the way from there in the last second of one of my basketball games. My angry teamates hastily corrected me.

I used to believe…

When I was 10 years old, I used to think the footie team Sheffield Wednesday was a bank holiday, Barry van Hire was a dutch soccer player and Muffin the Mule was a sexual offence.

I used to believe…

When i was younger (a lot younger!) i used to wonder why, when watching tennis, the players didnt have a rest when they shouted "juice".I still cant watch tennis without giggling at myself now!

I used to believe…

My brother used to play rugby and would always score trys. He always looked dissapointed however when he walked off the field as he thougt when the coach tapped him on the back and said "Good try mate" that he hadnt scored and that he would have better luck next time.

I grew up watching the Toronto Blue Jays. The first few seasons were kind of traumatic for me. Every time a guy struck out, or grounded into a double-play, I thought his career was over. These guys would walk back, dejected, to their dugouts, and I wondered where they would find a replacement. The announcers screwed me up - they kept saying the batter was "retired"! I was horrified every time a pitcher would strike out all three batters, and the announcer would scream that the pitcher had "retired the side"! Meanies...

I used to believe…

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!

I used to believe…

When I was 5 or so my father took up curling at the local rink. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why he would go, since he was bald......As you can tell, I'm not a sports fan.

I used to believe…

You know the baseball team, The New York Yankees?....well i used to believe that they were the same as the colonial yankees and that an actual baseball team was fighting in the Revolutionary war! i also believed that the war wasnt fighting, but a big huge Sport-a-thon!.....at the time i was 6...well actually now i am a Huge Yankees fan and i know what really went on in the Revolutionary war!

I used to believe…

When I was younger I thought that whenever the ball went over the goal line in football it was a corner, regardless of who kicked it out. This meant that instead of a goal kick, you had to cross the ball into your own box! I never let the ball run out for a goal kick because of this. Not great cos I was playing for the school team at the time!

I used to think that "Australian Rules Football" didn't actually have any rules.

Actually, I'm still not entirely sure on this one...

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I used to believe…

For baseball fans:

I used to think there was a ballplayer named Nicky Sasky. It was later that I learned his actual name was Nick Esasky.

A short time later I heard about a player with a similar name. But this time I figured I had it right because if there was a Nick Esasky it stood to reason that there would also be a Mack Esasser, right? Wrong. Macky Sasser.

I used to believe…

In order to get my 3 year old son to eat a good breakfast before going out to fish we told him that the fish only took bait that had egg breath on it. After that he was reminding me to cook eggs, and every worm had to have egg breath blowen over it before it went into the water.