![In 1992, Reebok squandered its budget hyping the Olympic showdown of "world's greatest athletes" Dan & Dave, which ended in disaster with both athletes performing horribly. This brilliantly foreshadowed HBO squandering ITS In 1992, Reebok squandered its budget hyping the Olympic showdown of "world's greatest athletes" Dan & Dave, which ended in disaster with both athletes performing horribly. This brilliantly foreshadowed HBO squandering ITS](https://preview.redd.it/nnz8ux4vu9z21.jpg?auto=webp&s=d8ecbabb4aadd0004f289bf54004408a934e5ab1)
In 1992, Reebok squandered its budget hyping the Olympic showdown of "world's greatest athletes" Dan & Dave, which ended in disaster with both athletes performing horribly. This brilliantly foreshadowed HBO squandering ITS
Reebok made decathletes Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson the center of a memorable 1992 marketing campaign that backfired on the road to the Barcelona Olympics
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