Broncos sack a Nashville PR stunt to woo Peyton Manning

Free pancakes weren’t enough to entice the quarterback. Plus, creativity lessons from a New Yorker cartoonist, a six-year-old heading to the National Spelling Bee, ‘Dickie V’ proves why you should always check the audio, and more.

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If only they had tossed in some bacon, maybe he would’ve signed with Nashville. Instead, Manning is going to the Denver Broncos, and sources told ESPN that the team plans to trade Tim Tebow—a one-man viral marketing machine.

Publicity stunt on Shoney’s part or not, we give them credit for thinking of it. Perhaps it picked up a few pointers from New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee on drumming up ideas.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that the trend in office design is to give employees room to “roam and think.”

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