sport

When I was little, I used to watch hockey games with my parents. When the announcer said He shoots, he scores! I thought he said Shootsky scores. I thought Shootsky was Wayne Gretzky. But for some reason I never wondered why he was on every team and scored all the goals. I also believed the Leafs could win a Stanley Cup. I still do... :(

Hockey Gal

I used to believe that parachuting was when a person jumped out of an airplane and a bunch of people were standing at the bottom holding out a parachute and he landed on it and was safe.

Michelle

I thought that the Whitewater rafting was founded by President Bill Clinton after I've learned abour his whitewater scandal!

Anon

I used to think that in basketball, with baskets at both ends of the court, a player could shoot a basket into either goal, and it would count for his team, that neither basket applied specifically to one team. In fact, when I saw some gyms with up to six baskets around the court, I thought a player could score a goal for his team by throwing the ball into any one of the six baskets.

Wendy

When I was about 6 , I had a Mary Lou Rhetton gymnastics outfit, and I believed that if I practised hard enough with it on, that somone might see me through the window and let me compete in the olympics someday . I don't why it involved the window but it was very important.

erika24

I used to believe that in football (soccer) the object of the game was to get the goalkeeper to fall down. Needless to say I wasn't very good at it then!

opinionata

I was a smart kid, so when I was thinking about the Olympics I noted that they were held in a different city every time. Given that the number of cities in the world is limited, I wondered how much would I have to wait until the Olympics were held in our small town.

Felipe

I thought break dancing involved actually breaking stuff!

Sydle

My uncle is a big fan of basball, and when I was about 5 or 6 we watched a video of him playing baseball when he was in high-school. When he hit a "home-run" my little 6 year old brain thought everyone was yelling, "hard on". Somehow no one ever knew I thought this or just never corrected me, so boy did I surprise my first baseball coach when I told him I could hit hard ons every time I played!!

Leanna

When I was little, and until I was probably 8 or 9 I thought that "Volleyball" was said "Bolleyball." Well, you play with a "ball," right? Ballyball? My mom had to break it to me that it was pronounced with a "v" when I went to try out for the team in grade 4.

Les

In the NBA basketball, when the team needed to take time-outs, I thought they did something wrong and they have to be grounded.

Anon

I desperatly wanted to bungee jump as a kid. I never thought that you would need a special rope, so decided my dressing-gown cord would be just as good. I tied it round my bed and jumped. And fell. That taught me!

Only got a couple of bruises!

I used to think the Super Bowl was a huge bowling tournament.

Anon

I thought all baseball umpires were named "Al." It seemed unfair that, while the players had their last names on their jerseys, the umpires had to have their first names on their hats.

Anon

I used to think when a baseball player stole a base, he literally picked up and carried the base with him, so when the other team was at bat, they wouldn't be able to stop there and they would have to try and keep running to the next base after that, thereby increasing their chances of getting tagged out.

Brandon Campbell

I used to think when a baseball player got a "walk", it meant he had to walk instead of run when he hit the ball, thereby increasing his chance of getting caught out.

Brandon Campbell

When I was a child, my father always watched hockey games on T.V. When there were fights during the game and a player was in the penalty box, it was called the "man advantage," for the team without the penalty. I always thought it was called the "mad advantage," because the players were so mad they would fight each other.

Cathy

i used to think that a'quarterback' was some guy who ran around with a giant quarter on his back! i was dumb

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I was very insistent that Grand Prix was pronounced Grand PRICKS

I would argue with my parents all the time that it couldn't possible be pronounced the way they said it was.

Kathleen

This is kind of a fitting statment i think. I remeber being around 12 and watching the olypics, when the power lifting came on. We were watching the various events, when my mother reffered to one of them as "The Cleveland Jerk", obviously she was in fact reffering to "The Clean & Jerk" - I wonder how many years she had been calling it that.

David.