The Green Bay Packers have found a new hobby. The team is busy preparing to face the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship game Sunday, but in their down time, players have been regularly meeting to feed a board game addiction. For the past few months, many Packers players have become obsessed with The Settlers of Catan. The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Clark reports that debate game strategy nonstop, and that the Packers take games of Catan as seriously as they do football.

Via the Wall Street Journal:

On any day in Green Bay’s locker room, you can find starting tackle David Bakhtiari, who introduced the game to the team, rounding up players for a Settlers get-together that night—and there’s no shortage of willing participants. But players may not know what they are in for. Backup quarterback Matt Flynn said he was interested in the game because it was “a nonviolent version of Risk,” referring to Parker Brothers’ notoriously lengthy game of world domination. But Flynn said the players take it so seriously that when he stopped by to play for the first time after a win last month, he was shocked by what happened when he attempted to turn on some celebratory music. “I was just trying to play some music—some Pearl Jam, and wouldn’t let me. He wanted to hear the players talk and strategize. He was very serious,” Flynn said. “They take it to a different level.”

According to the WSJ, quarterback Scott Tolzien tends to lose his temper and pound the board when he loses. It’s just a game, Scott.

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