You can think about Josh Norman and Odell Beckham Jr.'s rivalry as consisting of three penalty flags, hard pushes, dangerous hits, the $25,000 in fines and a one-game suspension. And that was just from one game alone—week 15 last year. Or you can think of them as locked in a tradition that is old as time. It is poetry, it is movement. Intellectual, primal, human, naked, armored. It is dance (best whisper-shouted).In today's highly-billed matchup, Norman and OBJ found themselves battling it out in the backfield yet again—this time with Norman playing for Washington as opposed to the Panthers. But despite all the hype and predictions of bloodshed, today seems to bear a different quality. It's not so vicious. Nay. It is pure.OBJ appeared to throw a bit of gamesmanship into the mix, pretending to go up for a catch, when Norman found himself going in for a tackle, but instead held up OBJ. Grappling with OBJ's 200 pounds, Norman executes a pivot, a carry, a slight pirouette. (Meanwhile, Shane Vereen was busy running in a touchdown to put the Giants up six points.) Sign these guys up with the Imperial Russian Ballet.It's almost reminiscent of:Yeah, you did just read a sports blog post with two romcom references in it.
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