There was reason to believe Redskins cornerback Josh Norman would be good at this. He’s a football player, and football players have historically done very well on “Dancing With The Stars,” beginning with Emmitt Smith and continuing with Hines Ward and Donald Driver and Rashad Jennings. The footwork, the agility, the memorization of choreography, the missing undershirt showing off abs – it’s all there.
Still, watching Norman catapult over his partner Sharna Burgess to commence the final dance of last night’s season premiere was somehow still unexpected. Once he landed – and dispelled momentary fear from Redskins fans that he might fall or tweak an ankle or have something catastrophic happen – Norman provided arguably the best dance of the night, a Cha-Cha-Cha that made believers out of everyone seated inside the Los Angeles studio lot and those watching at home.