sport

I used to think that football player's shoulder pads were actually their shoulders, so in order to be a pro football player, you had to be born with really huge shoulders.

Anon

When I was a kid, I thought that Sting the wrestler from WCW was a member of KISS because of the black and white face paint.

Guti M.

My dad was an avid golfer.He would go golfing even if it was raining outside. He always said that it never rains on the golf course. One day during a terrible thunder and lightning rain storm, I was so scared that I kept asking my mother to take me to the golf course ( where my father was at). Finally my mother asked me why I wanted to go to the golf course. I told her what my dad had told me... Then she explained what my father meant and that it does rain there.

Valerie

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 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...

eyeofthemonkey

As a youngster I attended many Milwaukee Braves baseball games at County Stadium. At the end of the national anthem when they sang "and the home of the brave" I thought it was "and the home of the Braves", in Chicago they would sing "and the home of the Cubs", and so on for each team.

Ray

When I watched a curling game on the movie newsreel, I thought it was played on a waxed floor rather than on ice.

Anon

The first time I saw professional boxing on television I was 5 years old. I believed that the fighter's were putting their teeth back in before a fight started and that they were angry at being without clothing. I was almost 10 when I actually tried boxing first hand and realized that my teeth and mouthguard both fit in my mouth, still I refused to let the other man get me in my underpants

Michael

I used to believe that the American baseball team, The Baltimore Orioles, were actually called the Baltimore Oreos, after the chocolate cookies. Somebody told me that it was Oriole, and that an Oriole was a bird. I got confused and thought that the birds were called Oreos.

Willow

When I was little my dad would sometimes go out to play hockey with his friends. I thought he played on our local NHL team and announced this to my entire grade one class.

L

I'm from Atlanta and I used to believe that at the end of the Star Spangled Banner, when you sang "and the home of the Brave..." that everyone across the country put in the name of their own hometown ball team.

Anon

I used to use the phrase hockey puck for coffee cup and hockey sack for pocketbook. I don't ever remember watching or hearing about hockey......strange.

Patty, NY

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

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

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

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!

Big Yankees Fan

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!

Becky

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.

bball smartz

I love hockey, and when I was a kid my dad told me that the guy that drove the Zamboni machine in between periods (to clean the ice for those not familiar with hockey, it's a huge machine that gets the skate ruts out), anyway, my Dad told me that the guys name was Sam Bologna! Now, I passed on the tradition...I told my kids that his son took over, Sam Bologna, Jr.!!

Debbie

My brother would play softball with my sister and me in the yard when we were little (he pitched). When either of us hit the ball, he'd pick it up, run over, and "tag" 2nd base and tell us we had to "stay on first--that was in the rules." I don't remember ever winning a game against him.

Anon