sport

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

For a very long time I believed that skydivers were just floating in the air. After all, it didn't LOOK like they were falling incredibly fast.

Andrew

As a child I used to watch a bit of soccer/football on TV. I knew they had the red card, which meant you were in serious trouble and the yellow card, which meant you were in a bit of trouble. But I was also convinced there was a green card, which the referee would only get out if you'd been really good. I never did see them use it, though...

Roskva

I used to be absolutely convinced thay volleyball was bollyball. I said it all the time and I guess that when I said it people didn't realized because no one ever corrected me. I finally realized that it was volleyball one day when I was reading with my dad. I came across the world and realized that it was volleyball not bollyball, I was so shocked. I wondered why no one ever corrected me and why I had never heard anyone destinctly say it with a v.

Kelly

I used to believe that the Soccer Wordl Championship "Italia 90" was called so cause a game lasts 90 minuts, and not because we were actually on the year 1990.

ceskita

I'm an American, and for a good long while I thought that Boxing Day involved the sport of boxing.

miss Taken

I used to think everyone competed in the olympics.

jo

(Australian spacific)

When we where young my father told my younger brother that he would not be allowed to go to the football (aussie rules) unless he could eat a Meat Pie with his hands without spilling any or becoming messy. (this can be quite difficult with the cheap pies that you get at the footy. He was told this to encourage better eating habbits/skills, You are not Australian unless you can do this :-)

Years later we went to see Gelong play, My brother stoped at the turn table where the ticket man stood. He wouldn't move,
My father said "Come on, other people want to get through",
"But he hasn't asked me the question yet." James replied,
Dad looked baffled, "What Question?"
"About the Pie,"
"Huh? what pie!?, come on, your holding up the queue"
"If can eat it without a knife and fork"
"Huh?, Oh... That's not really true, come on, your allowed in," said my father, then similing at the Ticket guy,

Paul

Can't believe no one put this already, since it was common knowledge among all my friends. I used to believe that the core of a golf ball was a highly toxic poison that would kill you.

Anon

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

We lived just a few blocks away from a local college, and we would always go watch the basketball games. And we would run to go get something to snack on, and to be sure we didnt step onto the court, my mom always told us that if we did, we would have to play in basketball game.

Alesia

All Ohio State players were from Ohio, all Michigan players were from Michigan, all Illinois players were from Illinois, all Texas players were from Texas etc. A good high school player in, say, Ohio automatically went to Ohio State and would never play in Michigan or Pennsylvania, etc.

Similarly, all Chicago Cubs players were from Chicago, all Pittsburgh Pirates players were from Pittsburgh etc.

Becky

In 1985 Boris-mania started in Germany when 17-year-old Boris Becker won Wimbledon for the first time. During the tournament my father always told me "Boris is in the quarter-final", "Boris is in the semi-final" and so on. I had no idea how tennis tournaments were organized, so I believed quarter final, semi final and final were all the ranks a player could reach in his entire career. I thought Boris was very successful reaching this in two weeks at the age of 17!!!

By the way, I believed his opponent (Kevin Curran from South Africa) was called Curren Curren.. ;)

Stefan, Germany

My brother used to believe that the object of tennis was to hit the net because everyone cheered when it happened.

Naff

My dad used to lay tile. He joked that he would make it to the Olympics and compete in tile-laying, and I thought there really was such an event in the Olympics.

Cindy

I used to believe that the Super Bowl was actually a bowling competition. I was most puzzled as to why it was such a big deal.

Caitlin

i used to beleive that there were little elves inside basketballs that would jump when it hit the ground and thats what made it bounce.

smartyparty

I thought that soccer moms were moms that played soccer!

Anon

When I was younger, I first heard that my brother needed 'fit' for a cup for baseball. Needless to say, I always pictured him standing with an old lady who placed a rather large styrofoam cup on his head that was brightly decorated and him smiling up at it as if it were 'just the right size.'

STFUgo-bot

You know those first down markers in football that look like a bulls-eye? I used to think they were the Target symbol and I wondered why Target got lucky enough to get an ad gig like that.

Hemlock