If you’re like me and my husband, and millions of other
Americans, you were glued to your television Sunday night, around 10:55 PM
Eastern, to find out who would be crowned champion of the fourteenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. And, if you are a football fan like me,
particularly if you’re a Green Bay Packers fan, you were hoping that champion
would be Packers receiver Donald Driver.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about... |
Donald received another compliment from head judge Len
Goodman. Len, who never gave Donald a
perfect score of 10 until his show-stopping freestyle, informed Donald that, of
the many footballers that have been on the show over the years, Donald was the
best.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the history of DWTS, I thought I would take a look back
at the current and former NFL greats who have replaced their cleats with dancing shoes for ABC—so you would
understand that Len’s comment was high praise indeed.
There has been a current or retired NFL player in ten of the
first fourteen seasons of DWTS; of
those, the footballer has won the Mirror Ball Trophy three times, and placed
second three times. All except two were also Super Bowl
champs. Here are those twinkle-toed pros,
in order by DWTS season*:
Season 2: Jerry Rice,
Runner-Up
Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV and XXIX champ rocking the 'fro in his freestyle dance. |
Season 3: Emmitt
Smith, Winner
Season 6: Jason
Taylor, Runner-Up
Season 7: Warren
Sapp, Runner-Up (Super Bowl XXXVII champ)
Season 8: Lawrence
Taylor, 7th Place (Super Bowls XXI and
XXV champ)
Season 9: Michael
Irvin, 7th Place
Though a champion with Emmitt's in the 'Boys' three Super Bowl victories, Michael couldn't quite live up to his former teammate on the dance floor. |
Season 10: Chad
Ochocinco, 4th Place--dancing a surprisingly tender waltz:
Season 11: Kurt
Warner, 5th Place (Super Bowl XXXIV champ)
Season 12: Hines Ward,
Winner-- The Super Bowls XL and XLIII champ shakes what his mama gave him in this sizzling samba (the action starts at about 1:20):
…and of course, Super Bowl XLV champ Donald Driver won Season 14 with this boot-stomping country send-up, accompanied by Cowboy Troy:
Yee-ha! Congrats, Donald!
*There were no football players in the casts for Seasons 1, 4, 5 and 13. Seasons 5 and 13 ran in the fall, during football season, so no active players could have been on the show.
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