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Article: Reebok Ad Campaign to Push U.S. Football for Olympic Designation.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- May 30, 1996
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May 30--Looking to make Ken Griffey Jr. as big as Michael Jordan, Nike Inc. proposes the Seattle Mariner slugger as a write-in candidate for president. Now Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith and Reebok International Ltd. have a write-in campaign of their own.
Smith doesn't want to be president; Smith and Reebok want American football to be designated as an Olympic sport.
At least that's the theme of roughly a half-dozen television spots that Reebok plans to air before and during the summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Stoughton-based Reebok claims it announced the idea of a write-in campaign before Nike of Beaverton, Ore., began tub-thumping Griffey Jr. as ...
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