What's a weird misconception you had about sport when you were younger?
Posted by DarthScabies@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 153 comments
When I was 5 or 6 I thought the ashes were the remains of a famous cricketer until someone kindly explained it to me. I think it put me off cricket for life. š
daniel2hats@reddit
The All Blacks were all black.
chmath80@reddit
If you thinking that's bad, our football team is still known as the All Whites. On the plus side, that will probably help them get US visas for the World Cup next year.
ChameleonCoder117@reddit
NZ is probably more openly racist than most of the US btw(Not counting bumf*ck alabama)
DTH2001@reddit
Wait until you find out what the NZ badminton team were (briefly) called
krumplirovar@reddit
?
DTH2001@reddit
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/badminton-hi-were-the-black-cocks/SBBEZWBQJXLFCQNN3L4GVOTFUA/
crucible@reddit
Their nickname is apparently the result of a misheard quote where somebody called them āAll Backsā
3FingerDrifter@reddit
This is half terrible but I was a fan of NZ all blacks as a kid and my welsh grandma was part of a club so could get tickets to internationals. My dad said to her iād like to see an All blacks gameā¦ so she got tickets to wales vsā¦. South africa
Former_Day59@reddit
QuĆ© ladilla, todo esto del deporte es para entretener y lo mĆ”s cruel es que nos gusta despuĆ©s nos vamos a quejar al cƱsimo de la madre porque cuando se prenda un peo de verdad vamos a decir pero que pasĆ³? Porque no nos enteramos de nada? Bueno siga viendo las estupideces del deporte la moda y el trabajo que cada vez esclaviza mĆ”s y mĆ”s no se vale lloradera, como haces para unir al mundo para acabar con la Ć©lite si todos andan dormidos
ProlapseProvider@reddit
When I was little by gran explained that the fox was ok at the end of a foxhunt. She said the fox would run until finally surrounded and then it would surrender and the leader of the foxhunt would come get it and next week they would let it go so they could chase it again. I never questioned it and believed it until I was a teenager.
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Oh man, if only š
ProlapseProvider@reddit
I know, I thought it was harmless fun for posh rich people, once I found out they literally let the hounds rip the poor fox apart I was angry, I mean sure I understand someone like a chicken farmer shooting and killing a fox out of necessity. But to go off into the wild and actively hunt down a fox that is minding its own business with hundreds of dogs really is barbaric. Goes to show that there a lot of rich psychopaths. Glad it's band and thanks to the people out there that went out there way to get the film footage and bring it to the nations attention, literal good guys fighting against evil.
PassiveTheme@reddit
I could understand it a bit more if they wanted to preserve the fox's pelt. Y'know, have an actual trophy from your trophy hunting. But tearing the fox apart so there's nothing left makes absolutely no sense to me.
ProlapseProvider@reddit
AND.. The reward was the hunters dipping their fingers in the remains of the fox and wiping it across their face like they are some sort of brave hunter from a small village that hunted an animal for food and leather to help the village survive the winter. Fucking disgusting fake hunters.
BeanOnAJourney@reddit
They aren't all rich, and they definitely aren't posh. They're vile, wretched, perverted psychopaths. Sadly the ban was created with so many loopholes (thanks in no small part to our delightful King Charles II) built-in that it continues largely as it did before the ban. They are supposed to lay a trail but they don't, and that's proven week in and week out during the season by hunts crossing main roads, railway tracks, and trespassing on private property. I won't even get onto the subject of bagged foxes and badger setts. It's utterly despicable that such a repugnant activity still continues in this day and age in the name of "tradition".
PassiveTheme@reddit
Do you mean King Charles III or are you talking about a 17th century ban?
jomabu23@reddit
English equivalent of bullfighting?
ProlapseProvider@reddit
I had no idea it is still going on. Will look into it see if there is anything I can do to disrupt it, although it does not go on around my city and outskirts. My Uncle (long dead) used to have a lot of land up here and they never had it up here, he never had an issue with foxes.
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Absolutely. It puts me right off a person when I find they like hunting animals. For fun. Itās just barbaric. I went off Johnny Rotten when he said he liked hunting.
Educational-Bus4634@reddit
I mean, being released to have it all happen again doesn't sound much better than how it actually ends
Ok-Example-5428@reddit
I was forced to take off my glasses for PE all through secondary school. No contacts. I felt vulnerable and wrong, and I was severely short sighted so couldn't see anything. Hated PE. Finally got to uni and went to the gym and realised I was an adult now and noone expected me to remove my glasses while exercising. Kind of changed my life.Ā
highrouleur@reddit
same. Wasn't even allowed to play table tennis wearing glasses. What the fuck was gonna happen to them from a fucking ping pong ball?
Nah, it's funnier to just have blindy over here swinging randomly because he's no chance of actually seeing the fucking ball
chmath80@reddit
I was forced to play rugby once at school (each class had to provide a team, and there were only 15 boys in mine). Obviously not wearing glasses for that, which meant that I could only make out vague shapes, so I just stood near a corner flag until it looked like everything was moving my way, and then I drifted over to the corner on the other side.
highrouleur@reddit
Yep, I had 5 years of that. My school was a rugby school (even though we were terrible at it) so had to do rugby every year in pe.
chmath80@reddit
That's all kinds of stupid. I wore glasses playing football on the left wing from age 9. Never had an issue for 40 years, until a right back cleared the ball from the edge of his penalty box straight into my face when I was only about 2 metres away, giving me no chance to dodge.
bars_and_plates@reddit
Not really about sport as in professional sports but generally just that you don't have to be gifted to do sports.
You can just go to the gym, go swimming, go cycling, go for a run, etc, if you do it enough you will "get good" so to speak. The average person doesn't realise just how far they could go if they just stuck to it for a few months.
notraulmoat@reddit
Arsenal were named after arsene Wenger
Kapika96@reddit
It is strange their longest serving manager (I'm pretty sure) has a name so similar to the club's name. What are the chances of that?
tearsswwhereyyouread@reddit
Don't forget Mancini at Man City.
chmath80@reddit
You'd think either they or United would be looking for a man named Chester.
mhoulden@reddit
The manager of Scunthorpe United just had an interesting nickname.
chmath80@reddit
Was his name Thorpe?
carl84@reddit
There was a time in Super League when there were players with names that rhymed with the clubs they played at; Paul Wellens at St Helens, and Lee Radford at Bradford.
According_Sundae_917@reddit
Donāt forget Nick Nackpaddywack, full back at Halifax
Watchkeys@reddit
Given how many clubs there have been over such a long period of time, it's unlikely not to happen from time to time.
douggieball1312@reddit
Arsene is also a very unusual name in his native France, especially nowadays.
Fresh_Relation_7682@reddit
Wolfgang Wolf, former Manager (and probably founder) of Wolfsburg
One_Strike_Striker@reddit
Let's hear what Wolfsburg's former manager Wolfgang Wolf has to share.
Mrdingo_thames@reddit
He was also born in 1949. They went 49 games unbeaten under him.
Heavy-Ad5385@reddit
Fuck, youāre making me feel old š
Fresh_Relation_7682@reddit
Ok I remember Arsenal pre-Wenger (the end of George Graham and Bruce Rioch) so now I feel old...
DisneyBounder@reddit
I used to think getting a strike in bowling was a bad thing because it meant you wouldn't get a second turn.
Ok-Noise2538@reddit
I thought that the Flying V from the Mighty Ducks was an actual thing that happened in hockey
PigHillJimster@reddit
I thought the University Boat Race was a friendly competition crewed by ordinary students that studied at Oxford or Cambridge who were just interested in volunteering to take part for an annual light-hearted competition - and not the semi-professional atheletes they are.
I realise they have to pass the academic requirements to enroll at the University as well, but it does seem a bit too 'professional' if you know what I mean.
wolftick@reddit
Hugh Laurie (Blackadder, House, Fry and Laurie...) actually rowed in the 1980 boat race for Oxford. Talented chap.
Time_Possibility4683@reddit
His father, Ran Laurie, won Olympic gold in the coxless pairs.
DarkNinjaPenguin@reddit
My brother dropped out of rowing fairly quickly at university when it transpired they were expected to put more effort into it than they did their studies. He loves rowing, but for fun!
DarknessIsFleeting@reddit
I went to school with a guy that went to Cambridge. This fellow got good grades, but everyone knew he would get into Cambridge because he was good at rowing. He was really good. I don't know much about rowing, but this gentleman had more than one; top 10 finishes at nationals. I don't know exactly what type of rowing or age range they were.
He never got selected for the boat race. The standard of the boat race is ridiculously high.
DameKumquat@reddit
Mate of mine at Cambridge rowed for the lightweights. He would eat normal meals plus a 500g packet of pasta each day, and somehow kept up with a demanding undergrad degree.
The main team did tend to be Masters students, often international, and even more since then. My mate was kinda sad he just didn't have the build to be one of them, but on the other hand he'd have had zero spare time outside exercise and studying. For one year, that's doable. For three, not so much.
Zealousideal-Wash904@reddit
On my postgrad course at Oxford there was a group of guys who only took the course so they could play in the rugby team and the Varsity match.
Ok-Friend-5304@reddit
I distinctly remembered F1 being an all-day event in our house. In my head my dad watched those cars go round for hours and hours and hours, all day long.
When l later found out a race canāt exceed two hours in length you could have knocked me down with a feather.
Vast_Resolve_8354@reddit
I think the 2 hour time limit was bought in about 10 years ago. Not quite an all day thing, but Canada 2011 went on for about 4 hours.
ihathtelekinesis@reddit
The 2-hour time limit has been around for decades. The 4- (later 3-) hour window is more recent and a direct result of Canada 2011 lasting 4 hours and 4 minutes including a 2-hour red flag.
fireburner999@reddit
In fact there was still a 2 hour limit of actual racing before Canada because at the of the race they were talking about whether it would come into play (it didnāt and therefore Button had enough laps to catch Vettel). It was only after Canada that they brought in a time limit which includes red flag stoppage periods as well
vipros42@reddit
That was an awesome race, once it restarted. Peak stuff from the period when I was watching.
AverageJoe313@reddit
I think (part of?) qualifying and the race used to all happen the same day, making it feel so much longer!
redbullcat@reddit
Maybe your dad was watching Le Mans instead? That's 24 hours long...
Ok-Friend-5304@reddit
No it was definitely F1 as I can still hear Murray Walkerās voice soundtracking childhood Sundays haha
redbullcat@reddit
Ha fair enough! Good ol' Murray. Miss him.
heilhortler420@reddit
Welcome to WEC/IMSA where ignoring the sprints they last a minimum 2 hrs
skratakh@reddit
i only watched an F1 race once, some of my flat mates at uni in first year were studying automotive engineering and were really into cars. i've never been more bored in my life, it felt like it lasted for days.
First-Mistake9144@reddit
Me too. A bunch of my (step) family used to gather at a members house and as a very young kid I remember it going on all day and being bored out my mind and wondering how so many adults could be this excited about it.
Youād think fast racing cars would be appealing to a young boy, oh well.
Not_a_real_ghost@reddit
Had similar memories. It felt like the race went on for hours on end.
veb27@reddit
I was 9 in 1991 and thought they were having a war about golf.
PeroniNinja84@reddit
Donāt ask me why but I used to think Rushden and Diamonds was a London based clubš¤¦āāļø.
mhoulden@reddit
I got mixed up and thought the motorbike TT races took place on the Isle of Wight. Probably be much shorter if they were.
Shitelark@reddit
I love man, too
Howtothinkofaname@reddit
Theyād probably be longer if anything. Isle of Wight isnāt that much smaller than Man but the speed limits would slow down progress some.
I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit
Manchester United were managed by the Duchess of York.
Shitelark@reddit
It's Fergie Time!
carl84@reddit
When it's actually the lass from the Black Eyed Peas
Maleficent_Resolve44@reddit
I had to Google the connection...
darybrain@reddit
I thought everyone hated playing football because they kept kicking the ball away like they didn't want it.
Holiday_Cat_7284@reddit
I didn't really get the concept of a pacemaker in athletics so when they said 'the pacemaker's dropped out' I thought it was a bit of a shit athlete who ran too fast and couldn't keep it up
Sarge_Jneem@reddit
At aged 8-10 i used to think that football defenders weren't allowed into the opposition half. I played like this for more than a few years, never asking for clarification. Eventually i nearly fell over the halfway line and wheeled my arms in an attempt to keep balance. Someone's dad asked me what i was doing and i finally learned the truth...
DarknessIsFleeting@reddit
I played goalie. I thought I wasn't allowed outside the penalty area at all. I was 9 when I learned the truth watching the 2002 world cup. One of the teams had a goalkeeper taking free kicks in his own half.
highrouleur@reddit
I blame there on the various convoluted playground rule for goalie.
Think we had "stick" - keeper couldn't leave his area
"rush" - keeper could leave his area, basically, normal rules but it sounds weird because it has a special name
"when" - a free for all, any defender could use their hands in the area
DarknessIsFleeting@reddit
Yeah. I thought "rush" was a special playground rule. I didn't think it was the standard rule.
IDAIKT@reddit
I genuinely thought Ian Rush and John Aldridge were the same player
Competitive_Pen7192@reddit
Because of Sumo wrestling showing on Channel 4 as a kis I assumed all fat people had super human strength...
Playful_Hair1528@reddit
Super Duper Sumos did??
burnetto@reddit
They got guts.... and BUTTS!
Lumpyproletarian@reddit
That Lords, the cricket ground, was the same place as Lourdes
DarthScabies@reddit (OP)
Bless you my child. āļø
geeceeper@reddit
That āinjury timeā in football was a period added to the game when all bets were off and they could foul to their heartās content.
DarthScabies@reddit (OP)
That would definitely make the game more interesting. š
Iwantedalbino@reddit
That any of the teams I supported were good
DarkNinjaPenguin@reddit
We always won the wooden spoon, bit of an odd choice for the top prize though ...
Corpexx@reddit
This was almost somewhat true when I was a kid, back when we used to be a premier league teamā¦
Fresh_Relation_7682@reddit
I used to think Rugby League was like the Premier League for Rugby Union rather than being a different sport
Mr_Venom@reddit
I now know this. Thank you.
DTH2001@reddit
The top tier in European* rugby league is called Super League.
When those 12 football clubs tried to set up their breakaway competition r/SuperLeague had to put a sticky pointing out that it was nothing to do with them.
meestah_meelah@reddit
As someone from Scotland I thought this was true up until my late twenties.
West-Ad-1532@reddit
How different pro level is to messing about in the park... My first training session as a youth team player was an eye-opener.
highrouleur@reddit
I worked with a guy who played at CB for West Ham youth team in the same age range as Beckham.
Fucked his knee up aged 15/16 so missed out on the big money and ended up repairing buses.
We used to have kickabouts at lunchtimes and even with fucked knees and having played CB his touch was just unreal.
chasimm3@reddit
Further to this, assuming the kid in your school who was way better than everyone else was definitely gonna be a pro footballer or rugby player. There are levels and being better than 500 other kids doesn't make you good enough to go pro, or even semi pro.
pajamakitten@reddit
There was a kid in my year who was signed up with our local team as third place keeper, he even made some appearances for them in the EFL Cup. There were still kids who thought they would play in the Premier League who were not even on the school team.
Goblin_Deez_@reddit
That girls are as good as boys.
It can be true in many circumstances but when it comes to elite levels the only physically demanding sport where women outperform men is marathon swimming due to having higher fat stores.
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Yes it is true that the fundamental biological differences mean cis women and men canāt fairly compete in tests of physical strength etc. However Iām bristling at your implied conclusion being that girls are NOT as āgoodā as boys. In a lot of ways cis girls outperform boys generally. Academically, in terms of social and emotional maturity, even in genetic soundness (that extra X chromosome is way favourable health wise to a weird little deformed Y š- see āgenetic decayā for more information).
Yeah they canāt punch a wall as hard as a meathead guy, but they can (typically) grow an actual human inside them, they are more likely to realise compassion is a strength (and is needed more urgently than ever in world largely driven by arrogant powerful men), and they can have a sensible conversation about their feelings without getting angry, going silent or walking away š
Dansredditname@reddit
I mean you're right but the title specifies a misconception about sport
Uhura-hoop@reddit
I know I know, it just seemed a generalisation I couldnāt ignore.
Commisar_Kate@reddit
Yeah we have a charity running event and the males are so insanely fast we had to change the rules so that a team of six consisting of 4 men and 2 women still counted as a Male team as the men just ran so damn fast it was obliterating all the actual mixed teams where it was 50/50.
On the flip side there are some really weirdly gendered sports. Like why is Snooker and Chess split by sex?
DarknessIsFleeting@reddit
There are several examples of this. The reason is that men are objectively better at chess, snooker, darts, motor racing etc.
I don't know why men are better. It might not be biological, it might be because of how we raise our children in this messed up world, but it is true. These sports have open competitions (anyone can enter) and they have women's only competitions.
The open tournaments are never won by women. For some reason, the best women cannot beat the best men at snooker and chess. Women's tournaments enable the best women to win tournaments. There are multiple stories of women doing okay at major open tournaments and even winning some of the smaller ones. The big ones with large prize money are always won by men.
Puzzman@reddit
Is chess gendered?
Im pretty sure itās open comp and womenās comp only.
Itās just the top rated women are out of the top 100 worldwide so it appears gendered when looking at the top tournaments.
pajamakitten@reddit
Is it a sport though?
Goblin_Deez_@reddit
No clue but itās probably for the best as I can imagine the kind of harassment women would go through in mixed gender events, especially as those sports can be fairly toxic
DTH2001@reddit
In ultramarathon races (100 miles+) women are often beating men, sometimes finishing hours ahead of the nearest male competitor
Goblin_Deez_@reddit
Yup I forgot that one, I remember there was one competitor who the night before the run ate tacos and drank beer and she still smashed it and beat most men
DTH2001@reddit
Thereās a not-quite joke that long distance races are really an eating competition
Conscious-Resist-662@reddit
I thought yokozona and kuvig borga near killed tatanka.
I thought in the athletics the starting metal things pushed people off. Like the starting blocks metal thing was powered.
I thought south Korea was a massive team because of stickers book and loved the badge and names. They basically been in one major tourney a bit.
I actually thought I was awful at sports turned out I was a good defender and dead ball kicker and just slow. Id never had made it but I was better I thought.
I thought cricket looked easy and me my few friends started a cricket club in high school and btw I'm a great striker ok a ball soft ball too o must have the ability. But shit at everyone else but seemed easy on TV.
Our form teacher, in UK you start the day or did in high school in your form class and was a science behind ours at the time lesst.
Mr Shaw was ours I live in a bit of place has bad reputation but hey you would love here Vs many places. Anyway so we make a cricket club we wear Dunlop or hitec and what ever hand me downs or what can afford. We learning cricket at lunch I can catch too actually or could I couldn't bowl.
Like anything practice practice practise. We all found out when Mr Shaw found out we stayed small cricket club and said want me join one lunch break.
This village living parochial mfer comes out in whites with proper grade cork balls and throws what felt like fast overarm Gowers at us. Haha just killed our love.
But you know is times when make your kids pay my uncle was ruthless at chess with me and first time I won was amazing.
Also diving boards look smaller height wise in TV my word that was scary
BeanOnAJourney@reddit
"Illegal moves" in sport - i thought that meant you could get arrested for performing them. I was very worried for Surya Bonaly when she performed her backflip at the Nagano Winter Olympics.
Due-Two-6592@reddit
That my friends older brotherās cricket box was a āgas maskā and I put it over my mouth and did darth vader breathing, only to subsequently find out where it had beenā¦
DarthScabies@reddit (OP)
That is absolutely grim. Have you recovered from the trauma?
Hyperion2023@reddit
Used to think it was the Oxford TO Cambridge boat race
DarthScabies@reddit (OP)
Now that would be worth watching. š
Jraksis@reddit
That they are fun to watch
-TheHumorousOne-@reddit
Sheffield Wednesday, only played on Wednesdays š¤£
TheLarksFly@reddit
Watching american football on black and white TV a long long time ago. (Mid 1960s- I was 5 or 6, maybe) and being able to pick out āthe Green Bay Packersā, a name I had never heard before in my life. I assumed they were the ones with the black and white vertical stripes on their uniforms.
GreenMist1980@reddit
I didn't want to go to wimbledon. I was convinced they seperated kids from families and forced them to work on the courts. I'm still shit at catching a ball and was worried that I'd never see my folks again
Practical-Story-802@reddit
I always used to wonder how the horses could breathe during Water Polo. I always assumed it was exactly like Polo but played under water.
Necro_Badger@reddit
I didn't know anything at all about rugby when I went to a rugby secondary school. I didn't even know there was league and union. We were never told the rules, so I just assumed it was basically the same as American football - which I had at least watched - but without the armour.Ā
It took me about a term to realise that you weren't allowed to pass the ball forward. When I asked our head of games for a copy of the rules to rugby, he looked at me with utter disgust and said that since I knew I was coming to a rugby school, then I should already know them beforehand.
The school also taught Latin, but I didn't learn what ablative absolutes under my own steam either (which is what I wanted to say, but 11 y/o me just didn't quite have the guts to utter it to our scary rugby teacher)Ā
Empty_Cherry6995@reddit
26th Dec, was all about televised boxing!
CrowLaneS41@reddit
Heavyweights need to eat a lot of food to maintain their weight, right ? And what day can you absolutely guarantee that both fighters will have had some huge meals? That's right, Christmas day.
Boxing the day after makes perfect sense considering all the gravy and after eights they've been tucking into the day before.
Original_Bad_3416@reddit
Iāve been giving a box full of treats on boxing for the last few years. Nice little tradition.
Leifang666@reddit
I was a literal adult when I realised it had nothing to do with the sport.
leekpunch@reddit
When I was little I honestly thought rugby balls were oval because the first people to play squashed a football when they scored a try and the ball was underneath them. I might have seen this as an historical skit on a kid's TV show or something.
Environmental-Suit10@reddit
That it mattered
shrtshnks@reddit
When I watched athletics as a child I always thought āthe fastest on paperā meant they were quickest on a paper running track which was just never shown on tv.
shrtshnks@reddit
And a Nightwatchman in cricket used to stay on the pitch all night guarding it from intruders.
CreatureUnderABridge@reddit
That it wasnāt all rigged
GoldFreezer@reddit
Me too, and that they kept the ashes in the cup.
UnacceptableUse@reddit
I remember going to a rugby game and being confused about why they were celebrating them trying to much but never seemed to celebrate when they actually scored
Colossal_Squids@reddit
I managed to convince my ex that the ashes were the cremated remains of W G Grace. It was great fun for an afternoon until my mum took pity on him and set him straight.
pajamakitten@reddit
There is a part of Bournemouth called Queens Park. I thought that was where Queens Park Rangers were based.
bacon_cake@reddit
As someone who doesn't follow a single sport I still thought most of these things were true until today lol
Comfortable-mouse05@reddit
I also thought the trophy was someones ashes. I was a bit confused when it wasn't
jaymatthewbee@reddit
I thought the intro to Football Italian was āGO LAZIO!ā , turns out it was āGolaƧo!ā
docju@reddit
I watched golf and my dad told me that the lower your score the better. Because I was still quite young, I had no clue how this applied to other sports so when some skating came on tv I asked my mum in good faith if a lower score was better and she sarcastically said āyes it isā, so, not understanding sarcasm, for a long time I believed that a low score in figure skating, gymnastics etc was a good thing.
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Oh thatās unfortunate šI never realised how sarcastic I am routinely, until we had our child and she kept taking things literally, all the while.
No-Introduction3808@reddit
Technically the execution scoring starts at 10 & gets knocked down for faults, so they could flip it to be golf, but that doesnāt include the other scoring.
littlely6@reddit
I used to think the Boxing Day football matches were somehow connected to the boxing on TV. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize they were two completely separate sports. These childhood misunderstandings are hilarious in hindsight.
hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit
When I was about four years old I thought "first team player" referred to a player who was in the first ever team, so I had it in my head that Peter Reid made his debut in Victorian times.
BaseballFuryThurman@reddit
Obvious one, but that WWE was an actual sport. Like boxing but everyone just went to insane lengths to get one over on their opponents in the build ups to matches. And some of them had crazy backstories like a brother who had been assumed dead for 20+ years but was now part of the sport. And despite them all hating each other and wanting to hospitalise each other, they kept these beefs confined to the 2 weekly hours they were on TV.
Silent_Rhombus@reddit
Same š¤£ I saw a referee knocked unconscious by accident, then one wrestler hit the other with a chair and pinned him. The ref didnāt have to take time off despite the obvious concussion heād suffered and the result was never overturned despite the cheating happening live on TV. And I never thought to question any of it.
Tideripper98@reddit
I didn't know that lawn bowling and ten pin bowling were different things. I remember going on a school trip to play bowling and I was so excited, until the bus parked and it turns out it was lawn bowling. I was so disappointed and angry.
Party_Advantage_3733@reddit
Bowls, lawn bowls. And it's great fun. It's no boule, but still pretty great.
dennis3282@reddit
Hosting the world cup/european championship finals was a ticket to the literal final, the the tournament as a whole.
I remember before Euro 96 being confused why that was a thing.
Difficult-Bet-2522@reddit
My parents loved darts and snooker and would talk a lot about the players so I just assumed we knew them. Also that if you said āspooksā to the telly you could put a player off his shot.
theflowersyoufind@reddit
I was with my Dad once when I was little, and kept asking him questions when he was trying to watch Wimbledon.
I noticed the crowd always cheered when the ball tended to go past the player at the other end and hit the big green wall. I asked if the object of the game was to simply hit that wall, and he offhandedly said yes, I assume just to shut me up.
I assumed that was the central rule of tennis for a long time after thatā¦
ClassicPerception768@reddit
That it mattered
Tacklestiffener@reddit
When I was seven or eight we had a family day out at the local park. I asked my Dad to time me as I ran 100m on the track.
When I got back he casually said it was just under ten seconds. So, for years...
Previous-Medicine898@reddit
I thought bank cards were unlimited money. I was so stupid as a child.
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