In case you’ve been busy with the holidays or living under a rock, on Sunday, Adrian Peterson fell just 9 yards short of breaking Eric Dickerson’s 28-year-old record for most rushing yards in a single season.
Afterwards, AP addressed whether he thought he should be named MVP, sent a message to Eric Dickerson & took to twitter to talk about the record. Check out what he had to say after the jump…
*Adrian’s tweets above in gallery*
Via Peter King at SI:
I told Peterson I liked how he went for the record, but I also liked how he and Frazier didn’t do anything to force it. And I asked him, “You said all the right things about how the most important thing was to win the game, but I have to ask, deep down, way deep down, does it hurt that you didn’t break the record?”
“Yes,” he said. “Yes. Yes. The feeling is there. I understand the big picture, but the feeling is there. I wanted this.”
But he knows he has time. He has 2013. And he said, with a laugh, this was his message for Dickerson, “I’m coming for you.”
One final question: “You’ve made it pretty impossible for the MVP voters,” I told him. “You think you’ve done enough to win it?”
“In my heart, I believe I’m the MVP,” he said. “Whether I win it or not, I feel I’m the MVP.”
