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I used to believe that, when I was playing soccer at the yard or at the street (a very common practice in the neighbourhood)the national soccer team couch would see me from his helicopter (?????)and I could be called to join the national team and participate in the World Cup.
Grugumilo Sebáceo
This is kind of a fitting statment i think. I remeber being around 12 and watching the olypics, when the power lifting came on. We were watching the various events, when my mother reffered to one of them as "The Cleveland Jerk", obviously she was in fact reffering to "The Clean & Jerk" - I wonder how many years she had been calling it that.
David.
When I was six I joined the local football (soccer) team. I knew we had red shirts, but when the first match I was to participate in arrived everybody put on blue shirts. Of course this was because the other team had red shirts as well. Because I had only been to one practice session and really didn't know or remember anybody since I was very shy (I still have a slight problem with names and faces for some reason), I thought the blue shirt meant that I had ended up on the wrong team. Being a little unsure if this was the case, and worried that I might let my actual team mates down, I kept a very low profile on one of the wings, making sure to stay away from the ball at all times, so I wouldn't make anyone mad by putting the ball in the wrong goal, which could be either one.
Christer
When i was younger, i used to think that all golf courses were called Green Fees, i never realised that it meant anyone could play.
silly blonde child
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when we used to watch the tennis on t.v. every time someone served a fault and there was a beep i thought the player swore and it had been edited out.
it wasn't until i said how bad one players language was that i was corrected amid much laughter.
I used to look at baseball games in summer in the States, and it were years before I understood that the players did NOT bat in order of who was the best on the team down to the worst -- I assumed the best fellow led off cos my favourite player did, of course!
ms boods
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As I child growing up in the seventies in south east London I would see NF sprayed everywhere. I used to wonder why there were so many Nottingham Forrest supporters in London. I think my mum must have told me that's what it meant as it really stands National Front which was an obnoxious far-right political party.
Zoe
When I was young I couldn't understand why on earth my mum would want to stand on a bridge with three strangers once a week - well that's what I thought she did when she "played Bridge"!
Ed T
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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 a kid they would put the name of football team West Bromwich Albion on TV as West Brom Albion, yet the presenter still said West Bromwich Albion. I, naively, assumed Albion was pronounced idge-albion [I was a kid] and naturally thought that Brighton and Hove Albion was pronounced Brighton and Hove idge-albion.
Mart from Withdean [home to Brighton and Hove idge-albion]
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when i watched grandstand on a saturday, i used to think that if you came last in the 4th division at the end of the season, you would get releagated to the scottish first division
kernow
I was very insistent that Grand Prix was pronounced Grand PRICKS
I would argue with my parents all the time that it couldn't possible be pronounced the way they said it was.
Kathleen
As a small child I would sit with my mother to watch the afternoon horse racing on our T.V. She did not bet but took a very keen interest in form. Mother was nonplussed when I asked her why they made the poor horse named "Bar" run in every race. I felt it was no wonder his odds were so poor- the poor thing must have been exhausted. Not only was he in every race but he was at every meeting.
Mother obviously thought the joke too good to waste so did not explain that 20 to 1 bar is betting shorthand. I am embarrassed to say I was in my twenties before the penny dropped.
Kim
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When I was little, I used to think that the shoulder pads worn by American football players were actually their muscles.
tim
I used to believe the 'autographs' of famous athletes on baseball bats and basketballs were real. I thought they must be very valuable and so you shouldn't use them.
queeneve
When I was at school, my teacher told me that Rugby Union was more demanding than Rugby League. How embarrassing to play my first Rugby League game and find out - the painful way - that I wasn't as strong, as skilful or as talented as I thought I was, Ouch!
Daniel
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I used to believe that cheerleaders pom poms were somehow permanently attached to their arms instead of hands:p
ani
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i used to think in golf you needed the highest score to win until some guy told me that it was the lowest score who won. i thought i had always won when me and my family used to play putt putt. i was like 7 or 8.
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When I was a kid growing up in England I used to watch a sports show on Saturday mornings. They had steeple racing and when the jockeys fell sometimes their hats fell off and landed right side up on the ground. I actually thought that the jockeys had sunk into the soft mud and couldn't figure out why no one was trying to help them. Yes I am weird!
Carl
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I saw a basketball game on TV and the announcer said, of the four teams in the playoffs, only TWO WOULD SURVIVE that day. I thought the players on the other two teams would be executed when they lost. I pictured trapdoors opening up on the basketball court to drop the losers to the depths of who-knows-where.
Brendan
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