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34. I disagree -- Football has been more active in DU3 than it ever was in DU2

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 09:02 PM

Dec 2011

There have been more posts in there in the last week than in years. Given that part of the point of DU3 is to make some smaller forums more accessible, I'd like to see whether football will survive on its own. I don't think there's any need to be hasty about it.

I don't know about baseball--I don't think it's been as busy, but of course it's the offseason ...

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Better idea. ellisonz Dec 2011 #11

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I disagree -- Football has been more active in DU3 than it ever was in DU2 fishwax Dec 2011 #34

Sports are seasonal. ellisonz Dec 2011 #39

true, but there'd been less than 20 posts since the start of the 2010 season on the old DU fishwax Dec 2011 #40

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