# Fox Regional Sports Ads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-regional-sports-ads/46763>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 21, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-regional-sports-ads/46763 "2000-12-21T21:36:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GasDr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@GasDr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GasDr)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-regional-sports-ads/46763/1 "2000-12-21T21:36:18Z")

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Who has seen these advertisements on TV? Specifically, the one where a guy does a dirt swan dive. Are these real or just very clever/good editing? There doesn’t seem to be a breakaway from the ‘action.’ Does this guy really dive onto dry land? Dead? Injured? Not real? If you haven’t seem them you can at [adcritic.com](http://adcritic.com) and use quicktime to view any of the fox commercials. The one I am referring to is Fox: Turkey.

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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-regional-sports-ads/46763/2 "2000-12-21T22:55:30Z")

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I’ve seen it, and I was wondering the same thing. What I am thinking is a stuntman “dives” but lands on a typical crash pad that most stuntmen use and then they edit the sounds so it sounds like he’s hitting the dirt. Anyone else?

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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-regional-sports-ads/46763/3 "2000-12-21T23:42:03Z")

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I’ve also wondered about that one. Part of me thinks it must be a stunt, but part of me thinks that there probably are people dumb enough to do something like that. Ever seen MTV’s _Jackass_?

I guess it could be some type of padding covered with dirt, to make it look like the ground, with the sound dubbed during editing.