Panting as he spoke to Fox's Pam Oliver, Adrian Peterson had just run the Vikings into the playoffs in a 37-34 victory over the Packers in Week 17 of 2012. He had finished a remarkable regular season, one in which he would be named MVP, with 199 yards against Green Bay, putting him just 8 yards behind Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record.
Oliver brought that up in their interview.
"Nine yards," she said, referring to how many he needed to break it. "Boy, that's got to hurt."
"Nine yards, what? From breaking it?" Peterson responded. "Well, you know ultimately as long as we got the W.