{"id":4649,"date":"2017-08-06T00:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2017-08-06T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:02:27","slug":"dallas-cowboys-1979-roster-poster-from-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4649","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys 1979 roster poster from McDonald\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I mentioned McDonald\u2019s used to give away epic promotional items when you visited their stores.<\/p>\n<p>This was another one of their promotions. The Dallas Cowboys full-size roster poster from 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The front\u2026<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Dallas Cowboys 1979 Poster Front 300dpi FlickrFormat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/36353849016\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4410\/36353849016_38d12c40f1.jpg?resize=500%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys 1979 Poster Front 300dpi FlickrFormat\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/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 1979 Poster Back 300dpi FlickrFormat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/36261588841\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4341\/36261588841_3840bedd7a.jpg?resize=500%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys 1979 Poster Back 300dpi FlickrFormat\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>Tom Landry was still the coach, Roger Staubach #12 was THE quarterback, and Tony Dorsett #33 was still on the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1979_Dallas_Cowboys_season\">Wikipedia has a summary of the 1979 season<\/a>, but I do not remember anything about seeing the games from back then. I do vaguely remember the uproar when it was announced this was Staubach&#8217;s last season with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>The back of the poster should have been a standalone poster in its&#8217; own right. It had detailed stats of the whole team with photos of their previous accomplishments, an &#8220;all-time&#8221; best chart by position played, and a special &#8220;ring of honor&#8221; near the center.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember anything on how I originally got this poster, but I do remember it kept falling off my wall every year. I kept having to re-mount it, and used everything from putty to glue to duct tape. I had no idea back then how to mount a poster and keep it intact over time, and my lack of experience shows in the condition. I couldn&#8217;t get some of the tape off the back when I got it out of storage, and had to help guide this one through the poster scanner to get it through.<\/p>\n<p>Even through this poster was in worse condition than the 1981 version I had, it still did very well rolled up in a cardboard tube in one of my Seward Trunks all these years.<\/p>\n<p>Flickr only allows 300mb uploads, so this is a highly down-scaled version of the original 905mb TIFF scan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I mentioned McDonald\u2019s used to give away epic promotional items when you visited their stores. This was another one of their promotions. The Dallas Cowboys full-size roster poster from 1979. The front\u2026 ..and the back. 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