sport

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.

Anon

when I saw a skiing event on TV, I figured that it must have taken place on a big cloud because of the white stuff everywhere. I don't know how old I was then, but I probably had not seen much snow until then.
So when I was outside and the sky was cloudy, I always tried to spot if someone was skiing down the cloud hills.

no success. ever.

oliver

When I would hear cricket scores from an overnight session and they would announce 'Australia lost two wickets overnight'....I thought the actual wickets (stumps) were getting stolen and always wondered how they played the game when they only had three wickets left.

Sharyn

When I was 7-8 years old, I believed that the number an athlete wore was a rating on a 1-100 scale on how good that athlete was at that sport. For instance, a player that wore the number 96 would be really good, but a player that wore the number 8 would be pretty bad.

Anon

When i was small the main things i knew about my dad was that he played a lot of sport and had a big moustache. For a very long time i thought my dad was both Ian Rush and Daley Thompson and told my friends that my dad was on Grandstand. In reality my dad was playing in the pub league in Devon and has never done the decathalon.

angela

I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!

Andy

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

One day when I was a child I saw my brothers playing football. When I asked to join them they said no, saying I needed the skill. I quickly ran inside and said to my mum: ''MAMMY MAMMY!! We need to go to the shop now!! I have to buy the skill!!!!.'' I spent another year after that looking for toy stores that sold the skill.

Jenny

Up until I was twelve, I used to wonder why there were so many baby prams at the golf club. Years later I discovered that they were golf carts.

Aneira

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.

Anon

i used to think that mascots of sports teams were like pets and that the players in the teams had turns of taking them home

Anon

As a child who had not yet found the public library, I assumed that "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was a football story.

Kathy

I use to believe that a Quarterback was a refund.

Clueless

when i was little i thought that "play ball" was part of the national anthem... because that's always what they say at baseball games.. "o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave... play ball!"

Emily

A friend beleived that when a parachutist went from freefall to "under canopy" they went up rather than down for a while. She was 25 at the time

Anon

There's a building that my family would always drive by, but never actually visit, that said "Pool" on the front window.
As a child I didn't know any other meanings of a "pool" other than a swimming pool, so naturally, I thought it was a pool for people to swim in. Whenever we drove past it, I would ask my parents if we could go to the pool place. They always said no and told me that children weren't allowed in there. I was always confused as to why I wouldn't be allowed to swim in a pool until I was an adult. So for a long time, I assumed the reason why pool halls didn't allow children was because everyone had to go naked to swim in the pool.

Anon

I used to believe that you had to sit in the splitz to ride a kayak!

Anna

I used to believe that the numbers athletes wore on their uniforms were their ages.

Sara

When watching Hockey games the announcers would always say "he shoots, He scores!" well i always thought the announcer was saying "Pachutesy scores!!" Until one day when I asked my brother how Pachutesy was on every team, he couldn't stop laughing long enough to tell me. I figured out eventually on my own Pachutesy is not a player.

jennee

I used to believe that the Super Bowl was a bowling tournament.

Angela