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Reebok last week pulled a commercial scheduled to run during the May 3 season finale of CBS’s Survivor: The Australian Outback.
The spot was kicked off the island because of its similarity to a real life videotaped stunt in which a Kentucky teen-ager was seriously injured.
In the ad, Houston Rockets star Steve Francis is shown leaping over an oncoming car while wearing a pair of Reeboks.
In the videotape the ad resembles, a group of teens tries to leap over a moving vehicle in an apparent attempt to imitate stunts shown on MTV’s Jackass series.
“Reebok officials do not want to be seen as encouraging dangerous behavior,” said Reebok vice president/brand communications John Wardley, explaining the Canton, Mass.,
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