sport

I grew up in the New York City area, where there were at least two teams in each of the major professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA). Because the Yankees and Mets in baseball were in different leagues and never played each other during the regular season (and never did until just a couple of years ago), as a little kids just starting to discover sports, I thought that was how all the New York teams in all sports were set up. So the Rangers would never play the Islanders, the Knicks never played the Nets, and the Giants never played the Jets. It just somehow made sense that way, and I was probably around 15 before I realized my error.

Lamont D. Sanford

The world can be so confusing when you're a kid! When my son, Mark, was 4 years old we were watching a pro football game on the T.V. that his aunt and uncle were attending. I told him to watch closely for aunt Teresa, after a few minutes of intense viewing he turned to me and ask "what number is she?"

Lynn

Another one for cricket fans, for a long time I beleived that the cricket ground Lords was the same place that The Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette.

UKJess

up until the otha day i used to believe that when u went to watch a sporting event live the commentray we get on tv was also given to all the people watching live :-S

naive 18 yr old

this is one that only people from the UK will get, but I did used to believe that international cricket matches were always played in Yeovil ....

NCM

I grew up in Atlanta and everytime I went to the Atlanta Braves games with my dad I thought they were saying "Home of the Braves" at the end of the national anthem.

Dennis - Little Rock, AR

for the first 15 years of my life my dad convinced me that the whole 'quinnella' and 'trifecta' at the horse races..were horses..until i realised...'gee those horses must be old by now' i am still 15

Amy

I USE TO BELIEVE THAT GOLF N STUF WAS DISNEYLAND

Anon

When my wife was a kid, she used to watch the football results on telly with her dad every saturday afternoon.
Because the Scottish results came after the English ones, she thought that if you were relegated from the old 4th division, you had to go and play in the Scottish Premier league.

Stevie Mac

I was about 10, my nextdoor neighbours big brother (15) was making names up for a football team on the playstation.
He named one of them 'Hugh Jass' and I thought 'Hugh Jass' was a real football player.
It was only when I asked my dad a few days later "Which team does Hugh Jass play for dad?" That I realised he had meant it to sound like HUGE ASS!
I always laugh at that,
Thankyou so very much joe!!

Anon

I used to believe that the 2nd serve in tennis was slower than the 1st because you were still knackered from putting all your energy into the 1st!

Eddie Kent

When I was about 9, I saw the Saturday Wild World of Sports. I thought that if I tried hard, and ran fast enough I could perform the floor routine of a gymnist. After gathering my family in the living room for the performance of a lifetime, I started to run, and attempted my first flip. After landing flat on my back and not being able to breath, I realized that there might be alittle something more to doing this stuff, and then wondered how they could have let me try this.

KJ

Anon

While on our high school baseball team, we convinced our 10 year old bat boy that the extra catcher's cup/supporter was a "nose guard" that should be worn when he was working around the batter's box. We had some good laughs then forgot about it for a decade until we ran into the young man who was now a star baseball player on his Big 10 college team. Fortunately he had no hard feelings and had "educated" some of his bat boys.

JB

One day, when is was a kid, at a big family reunion, i was looking at my cousin's cricket gear & naming all the equipment. e.g. Bat, pads, gloves etc, until i saw a small plastic curved thing which i picked up & proudly announced in front of my entire extended family, that this thing covers the nose & mouth, which i then did. To my complete surprise & horror, absolutely everyone cracked up laughing at me because it was in fact a "box" which protects the batsman's genitalia area getting hit by the ball during the game of cricket!

Mathew Cooper

I used to believe volleyball was actually called bally ball...which I STILL thinks makes more sense, as aren't you hitting a ball?

Melinda

I used to ride my bike so that I could be seen clearly from the road. I thought I was an excellent bike rider and it was just a matter of time before some professional bike scouts would see me out riding and think, "Hey, that girl's got real talent." Of course, I would have to leave my family behind and train day and night in the sport of bike riding, but that was a sacrifice I was willing to take. Never happened. Could be because I lived on the outskirts of a VERY small town and there were no bike riding scouts there.

DahDoll