STATESBORO - The tickets. Family accommodations. Media requests. The flashbulbs. Playing the game is the natural part, but it's the other distractions and preparations that you forget about.
Adrian Peterson knows precisely what Jerick McKinnon is going through right now as he prepares for Super Bowl LVII (Sunday, 6:30 pm, FOX). Peterson was in the same spot - literally - 16 years ago as a member of the Chicago Bears preparing for Super Bowl XLI against the Indianapolis Colts.
"I don't want to call them distractions, but more of points of preparation," Peterson said from his office in the Ted Smith Family Football Center at Allen E.