sport

My brother convinced me that in a football match consisting of two legs, players in the first leg had to use their left leg only, and then in the second leg use their right.

Anon

My dad used to ride a motorcycle & surf, but i had this wierd belief that surfers & motorcylists were currently in an epic street battle against each other, like rival gangs.

I was always worried about daddy when he would surf or ride his bike that someone would shoot him for being a traitor.

ShannonOfDoom

I grew up in the New Orleans area, where our football team is the Saints. My father was, and still is, a die-hard Saints fan, and as a result, I often heard a great deal about the local team. Well, as a child, when I heard about the holiday All Saints Day, I believed that it was a day to commemorate the athletes playing on our local football team.

Miss Mustard

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

My brother says that he used to think that the Chicago Bulls mascot lived in the sewers, ate poop, and kidnapped people. He lived with other Chicago Bulls and the people they kidnapped were forced to poop for eternity.

Shirley B.

When my sister was little, she believed that all footballers were brothers and that's why they hugged after scoring goals.

Natalia

When I was young, my brother, who was 3 years older than me & played baseball, once said that his team got to use the "big diamond" for the next game. For quite some time I imagined this Little League team using a huge, shiny, precious gemstone... and was a little envious.

Randy

When I was a kid, I used to think that the only way you could play football was if you had giant shoulders.

Sam

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

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

I used to believe that soccer players weren't allowed to talk among themselves during the soccer matches because the only thing that I could hear on the TV was the voice of the match's narrator :)

Sandra

When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.

Angie

My brother thought the white powder used by weightlifters to help them grip the weights was the ashes of the Olympic flame.

This was because at the 1984 games the containers used to hold the chalk dust looks just like the flame bowl at the stadium.

Richard Davies

when i was little i thought that all sports balls had evil spirits inside them. if i turned a corner and say a ping pong ball was in the center or the floor, my superstitious mind would convince me that something terrible was about to happen.

shasta, ky

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.

Notty

When I was around 12, I thought that the nosebleed section of venues or stadiums was for people like me who frequently got nosebleeds. I envisioned a section of people with handkerchiefs held to their noses, paramedics nearby, just freely bleeding while enjoying a concert or a baseball game.

Gabrielle

In the 1990s, when I was a kid, I used to believe that Michael Jordan was the tallest man in the world!

Sara

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]

My dad has always rooted against the New York Yankees baseball team. Until well into my 20s, I thought the the symbol on the Yankees hats was some sort of evil Nazi sign. It wasn't until I focused on a Yankees hat someone was wearing during a 45-minute subway ride that I realized it was an "N" and a "Y"!

Eden

When I was little, there was always talk something on T.V. about sports or the Book of Records. They would talk about the guy who 'broke the record'. I always pictured people standing outside and smashing LPs on the ground, and never understood why that was so important.

Anon