You're deluding yourself if you think anything about this place will ever see the inside of the Smithsonian or National Archives. It's a message board nothing more and nothing less (just ask Phil ). Locking gameday threads is a waste and as we see in this thread, causes more consternation than the supposed historical significance you think it deserves.
Wrong.
I know for a fact that plenty of posters like to go back and relive classic games through the threads.