Kurt Warner is one of my favorite football players. First, he's got such a great cinderella-story. Second, that awesome cinderella story of his is what finally ruined my favorite quotable stat about a dome team never winning the Superbowl! Football players have a mixed record on DWTS. Jerry Rice (and Anna Trebunskaya coincidentally) came very close to winning the mirror ball trophy in Season 2. Then in Season 3, Emmit Smith
did take the mirror ball home. Jerry is joined by 2 more NFL stars who made it to 2nd place: Jason Taylor in season 6, and Warren Sapp in season 7. In season 8 though, Lawrence Taylor only made it as far as 7th place. And just last season Chad Ochocinco made it to 4th but clearly benefited from the fan vote to get him so far. So we'll have to wait and see how well Warner does.
Anna has partnered 5 other stars: she's made it to 2nd place twice and landed below 10 the other three times. She's a great dancer but when she was dancing with Evan Lysacek I noticed that she didn't quite rise to the occasion the way Derek Hough did. He brought every drop of determination and pushed his partner to the limit. His choreography reflected his knowledge that the final dance was their defining moment and last chance to set themselves apart from every other couple that came before them. Anna kind of seemed to crack under that pressure.
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