What kind of monopoly player are you?

When I was a kid I wasn’t very good.  Not that I didn’t understand the value of land or utilities, or that I didn’t build houses and then hotels.  I did.  As soon as I could I’d have all my properties built up.  Big. 

It usually wasn’t long before I was collecting big jack from everyone landing on my properties.  I would often find myself in possession of a lot of the currency of the game as well as additional properties, given to me in leiu of rent.

I was poised to win.

But then a funny thing would happen.  I’d let those landing on my property negotiate lower rates at my hotels, just so they could stay in the game.  They’d get to stay alive, and I’d get to feel like I was the King of the World, coasting on easy street.

That’s what the Thanskgiving day game looked like to me.  A team that had fought hard early to establish themselvesand take a nearly commanding lead only to ease up.  To feel like the Kings of Football while the Lions squirmed under their thumb?

There were a few times when I ended up losing monopoly after having such a huge lead, either because I was too generous or too vain.  The Packers almost did the same thing yesterday.

I hope they learn the lesson I did; when you have your foot on your opponent’s throat, you don’t ease up.  You push down.  End it right now before they have a chance to figure out how to turn the tables. 

The battle for NFC supremacy happens in a week, and I hope the killer Uncle Warbucks mentality pervades the Green Bay lockerroom by then.