Here's the Kicker

Brian Diesbourg, the winner of a Wendy's promotion in Toronto, will receive $25,000 a year until 2045, not the $1 million lump sum that some TV viewers thought he would receive.

Photo courtesy of TSNPhoto courtesy of TSN When Brian Diesbourg, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer, got set to attempt a 50-yard field goal at halftime of a Toronto Argonauts Canadian Football League game on Oct. 27, some 600,000 people tuned into television station TSN, many of them just to see whether he would walk away with the promotion's $1 million grand prize. The fans were not disappointed - Diesbourg made the kick - but the result outraged quite a few of them.

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