sport

I used to think there was a platinum medal in the Olympics that was better than a gold medal. (I still kind of wonder why there isn't one)

Alberto Richardson

my girlfriends kid ryan always thought that when golfers teed off they yelled fart instead of four .This was amusing for some time

timmy poo

I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.

Anon

When I was little, I believed that (american) football players' bodies were really shaped as they appear on the field. I never personally saw anyone shaped like that, but I thought that's because only famous people could play football, and I didn't know anyone famous. (I only ever saw football on TV, and I thought only famous people were on TV.) When I was in 2nd grade, my brother was then old enough to play jr. high football--I was surprised to learn about the shoulder and leg pads.

cheryl h

i watched a lot of football with my dad when i was really little. he spoke with a chinese accent and whenever someone dropped the football, he would get really excited a shout. it wasn't until much later that i realized that instead of shouting "PHONE BALL!!" (like the ones we saw at the electronics store) he was shouting "fumble"

Anon

I used to believe that when somebody did something really well, they were rewarded by getting to break a record (LP).

It was both fun and forbidden, so who wouldn't do something tremendous in order to break a record.

mark

As a child I used to believe that the objective in boxing was to hit the other person's gloves; while forcefully exhaling.

Lyle

I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .

JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]

I used to believe that the winners of big sporting events like the World Series or Superbowl were actually "World Champions" and were somehow bestowed some type of high level political power like a seat at the United Nations or something like that. They worked in conjunction with winners of other events like Miss Universe to make sure the world was in order.

Sammy

i used to think that the highest number a football player had on his jersey was how many players were on the team; i was wondering why they needed to pay so many extra players when none of them substituted in. i looked for all the numbers in between!

Anon

Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.

Jamie

When I was a kid growing up in England I used to watch a sports show on Saturday mornings. They had steeple racing and when the jockeys fell sometimes their hats fell off and landed right side up on the ground. I actually thought that the jockeys had sunk into the soft mud and couldn't figure out why no one was trying to help them. Yes I am weird!

Carl

After seeing Space Jam, I was convinced that I would find Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes if I looked in a golf hole. I never persuaded my dad to take me to a golf course to check this.

Rachel

I used to believe that golf holes were infinitely deep, and that when a player hit ball into one, it fell forever into some faraware abyss, never to be retrieved again.

Mike

We lived near a huge sports stadium in Melbourne (the M.C.G) and back in the day giant plastic trumpet-type horns were popular in the crowd. When the footy was on and the wind was travelling in the right direction we could hear the crowd going mental and blowing these horns each time someone kicked a goal. My sister and I firmly believed they were trying to contact us, we would spend hours on the porch yelling at them full volume until we heard the horns sound, then we'd get scared and run inside. About a minute later we'd overcome our fear and resume yelling. This occurred every Friday night for six months of the year, much to our parents dismay.

Steve

Before I was old enough to read "big books" I thought that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a football coach who was physically challenged.

Lou

As I child growing up in the seventies in south east London I would see NF sprayed everywhere. I used to wonder why there were so many Nottingham Forrest supporters in London. I think my mum must have told me that's what it meant as it really stands National Front which was an obnoxious far-right political party.

Zoe

when I was beginning to learn about cricket I thought the batsman at the bowlers end was there to hit the ball away from the stumps if the facing batsman hit it straight back down the pitch.

Jock

when my sister was little she thought that in order to do gymnastics, you had to find a gym first that did nastics.

Anon

I used to believe that there was only one cheerleader on a cheerleading team, because there was only one leader. So I was very impressed when a lot of my friends told me they were cheerleaders. I just supposed the other people on the team were cheerers.

Anon