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I used to believe that when I got a NEW pair of shoes that I could run faster. Man was I upset when I went to school and the gym teacher tested my running time and said that I was the same. I told her, 'But I got new shoes'. She snickered and told me that the shoes do not make you faster....

Matilda

I used to believe that all the men in the world used to go to a massive garage on "Boxing Day" and have a big boxing match!

Rose

I used to believe that everything that happens every four years (presidential elections, the olympics, leap year, exc) HAD to happen the same year of every 4-year cycle (probably because the summer olympics do take place during election years). I got very confused when the winter olympics were on and we weren't having a presidential campaign.

Wants to meet President Obama

when i was super young, in the early 80s, i thought Boris Becker and Steffi Graf must be married to each other, just because they were the two best tennis players in the world.

Nico

When I was little, my dad would take me with him when he videotaped high school football games for the district. For some reason, I thought that football players couldn't talk. Boy was I startled when one of them came up to us and started to talk to me!

ChristiCo

For years I didn't realise that "soccer" was football (i.e. English Association football). I thought the word was pronounced "sosser", and for some reason thought it was a game like throwing a frisbee.

Ray

I used to think that volley ball was called "bally ball". I was always thinking "What makes that ball more bally than others??" I remember when I finally found out it was volley, it was a really big shock.

Betty

When I was young I used to believe that magicians would be perfect NFL football players because they could easily let the ball disappear and show it back up when they wanted it.
I would tell this theory to friends and parents when there was either football or magic on TV.
I had this theory from when I was 4 till when I was 6.
Then I saw a quarterback -Steve deBerg- do some play action plays and I shouted "they've listened! they've listened!"
He could just let the ball disappear in the hands of a running back and pop it back up to throw it, he got everybody fooled.
From then on, up to this day, I never abandon a theory I truly believe in.

Sjaak

I use to beleive that the silly midd on position in cricket was actually a name of player, I'd imagined him being a very poor fielder who dropped a lot of catches because his mind was of cricket an on other things instead causing him to be nick named "silly midd of".

Zainub

When I was a kid, there was a neighbor's house where they frequently watched wrestling matches on TV. Once the neighbor told me that the object of the wreatling match was to break through the floor of the wreatling ring. For a long time afterwards, any time I saw a wrestling match on TV, I kept waiting for someone to break through that floor into the area below, inside the box-like structure that supported the wrestling ring. For years I watched in vain to see anyone do that, and concluded for a long time that winning a wrestling match must be a quite rare event.

Greg

When we heard the announcer during the football games our father watched on TV, my brother and I believed that every yard on the football field was as big as the back yard of our house. Football fields were ENORMOUS.

Bruce L.

When I was at primary school, a lot of my friends used to think that the number on a footballer's shirt told you how old he was. The goalkeeper wears a number 1 shirt, so they must have thought all goalkeepers were big babies!

Alan, Sheffield

wen i was around 6-7 i used to think during playing a game of CRICKET..when a batsman hits the ball VERY high in the air..GOD catches the ball and gives the batsman a 100 runs:D..how random..

Anon

When watching Football, you'd always see a player on the phone.........I always thought they were there so players could talk to their mom or dad while the game was going on.

Aaron

When I was little, I used to believe that American football players had really huge shoulders. I was shocked to discover they wore shoulder pads.

Peace Monkey

When I was little I used to be a huge wrestling fan. This was back when Gordon Solie and Freddie Miller were popular announcers. Sometimes when a wrestling match would start they'd introduce a wrestler and say he was from "Parts Unknown". When I was little I thought they said something like "Partsanon". I remember asking my mom several times where "Partsanon" was. LOL.

Anon

When I was a child, and my father had first tried to explain (American) Football to me, he said how a team has "four downs to gain ten yards". In my first attempt to understand that, I got the idea that it meant a team, in advancing 10 yards, had to knock down four players of the opposing team or they would lose the ball. So at the first several football games I watched, I was counting how many players on the defensive team fell down, and trying to see if four fell down by the time the offense advanced ten yards, to see if the offensive team would retain possession of the ball. Naturally it was confusing, as often a team retained possession when I clearly thought they shouldn't have, and vice-versa.

Ron

I used to believe that College Football was a University in a place called Football. One day, I saw a football game on TV.I asked my brother what it was, and he said it was a college football game. I Thought for years that a football stadium was college.A while later, my brother showed me a picture of a football game he was going to. I said "Your'e going to college?"

Lydia

I used to believe that snow skiers jumped off the ski lift while it was still high in the air. I believed this until I learned to ski and realized that the ski lift ends at the top of the mountain where you just stand up on the ground to get off the chair.

Misha

my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.

Julie