He is six years from age 40, and seven removed from his NFL MVP season, but Adrian Peterson — still in the business of defying time at age 34 — mostly speaks of retirement from football as some far-off concept.
When that day comes, however, Peterson has no doubt about how he will step away from the NFL.
"This is where I started; this is where it's going to come to an end, as well," Peterson said Sunday as he sat on bleachers at Hopkins High School during his first youth football camp in Minnesota, his two children who live in the Twin Cities standing nearby.