sport

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

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

watching pro wrestling when i was 10, i used to think it was real. i used to think certain stuff/storylines were real like Sgt Slaughter getting boots from Saddam, real Mounties using a taser weapon,Yokozuna a real japanese(in real life hes samoan)Undertaker having a clone

Anon

You know how when you were at school sometimes the "1st Team" of whatever sport would play against the Coaches and former pupils etc etc? (i.e. The current best team verus the best previously)

As a child and not the biggest football (soccer) fan I used to think that Newcastle were a team of referees (and of course the referees had to be the best in order to judge the game in the first place!). This was mainly due to their black and white kit of course.

I still don't know anything about football.......

Viscont Che Cubin

when I was younger and used to watched football with my dad, I used to think that the football players had no faces through the helmets.

Corrine

I used to believe that american footballers wore special shoulder pads which moulded their shoulders to make them so big and square...and I believed this until I was 15

squizy rach

I grew up thinking that the Washington Redskins were the president's football team because the president was from Washington (not the team)...

Anon

When I was 4 I ran in my first race in honour of the Queen at our local silver jubilee party,all was going well I was in front until I got to the tape and stopped then everyone ran past me through the tape and I was last they gave me a threepnee bit (dull old money when your 4)whilst the winner got 15p!Nobody told me you had to run through the bloody string!

loser

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

In order to get my 3 year old son to eat a good breakfast before going out to fish we told him that the fish only took bait that had egg breath on it. After that he was reminding me to cook eggs, and every worm had to have egg breath blowen over it before it went into the water.

Marilyn

When I was about 5, my brother was watching a football(American) game with the Chicago Bears playing someone, but i forget who. Whoever they were, my brother was rooting for them and not the Bears so when he said "Oh no! A Bear made a touchdown" I got this image in my head of an actual bear wandering the football field, making a touchdown, and that this is somehow upsetting to my brother. I still laugh when I think of this image.

Emily

When I was real young, I thought that the angle of the sun had an effect on me, so during soccer i would stare at the sun and try to figure the best position.

jm

When I was a kid, my older sister told me about a friend of hers that was taking fencing. I asked "like, wooden or chain link?"

Tim

I use to believe that the players on professional sports teams actually were born and raised in the towns whose team's they played for. I also believed the teams were owned by the towns.

Anon

I'm from Milwaukee. In the mid to late '70's the Milwaukee Brewers had a rightfielder named Sixto Lezcano. I was about 5 or 6 at the time. My older brother convinced me that Sixto had 6 toes, thus his first name.

Anon

There was a nuclear power plant near my grandparent's farm. I though it was a really tall baseball stadium.

Me

When i was younger i used to believe that super bowl was played on two fields intersecting each other like a cross. I thought that two teams played on one field & two on the other

Brad Kinstler

i asked my father what a turkey shoot was. he told me they threw them up in the air and you shoot the down. i belived that.

margie

I used to belive in basketball that held ball was hellball

Anon

When I was little I guess 3 or 4 the Housont Oilers fired Bum Phillips as their coach. So my mom came to me and said the Oilers fired Bum Phillips and I started bawling. It took her a while to figure out that in my mind I thought they had shot him. As in Ready, Aim ,Fire.

Scot