{"id":4645,"date":"2017-08-05T00:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2017-08-05T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T06:26:19","slug":"dallas-cowboys-1981-roster-poster-from-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4645","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys 1981 roster poster from McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in another era, McDonald&#8217;s used to give away epic promotional items when you visited their stores.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point &#8211; this Dallas Cowboys full-size roster poster from 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The front&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Dallas Cowboys 1981 Poster Front 300dpi FlickrFormat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/36211680612\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4378\/36211680612_26cba31ec0.jpg?resize=500%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys 1981 Poster Front 300dpi FlickrFormat\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>..and the back.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Dallas Cowboys 1981 Poster Back 300dpi FlickrFormat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/36335086846\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4403\/36335086846_ccfd5195f8.jpg?resize=500%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys 1981 Poster Back 300dpi FlickrFormat\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Landry was still the coach, Danny White #11, Gary Hogeboom #14 and Glenn Carano #18 were the quarterbacks \/ alternates, and Tony Dorsett #33 was still on the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1981_Dallas_Cowboys_season\">Wikipedia has a summary of the season<\/a>, and I do remember watching the final game against the 49ers with my dad in our living room on the old TV set they had. Funny how a simple thing like this can bring back memories so easily.<\/p>\n<p>The back of the poster had &#8220;autographs&#8221; of the whole team around their iconic helmet.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember the exact details of how I originally got the poster, but I do remember that as soon as I got home, it went up on my wall right above my bed and stayed there even after I went off to college.<\/p>\n<p>The poster did surprisingly well rolled up in a cardboard tube sitting sideways in one of my Seward Trunks all these years, but it took awhile for it to flatten out so I could scan it. I got lucky the tape I used to hang it up back then came right off and left very little residue.<\/p>\n<p>After guiding it very slowly through a poster scanner at max resolution, and a little straightening in Photoshop, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Flickr only allows 300mb uploads, so this is a highly down-scaled version of the original 900mb TIFF scan.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this one, just wait until you see the Dallas Cowboys roster poster I have from 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in another era, McDonald&#8217;s used to give away epic promotional items when you visited their stores. Case in point &#8211; this Dallas Cowboys full-size roster poster from 1981. 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