Dancing With the Stars Crowns a Winner

Hines Ward road Steeler Nation to another championship Tuesday night: the Mirror Ball trophy in Season 12 of ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

The Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver  claimed the  Mirror Ball Trophy as winner of the 12th season on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Tuesday night.

Hines may have lost the Super Bowl to the Green Bay Packers back in February, but he can take comfort in having defeated actress/professional dieter Kirstie Alley on the penultimate night of the May 2011 TV sweep.

Kirstie went into the night’s results show five points behind Hines and Disney princess Chelsea Kane.

Chelsea wound up finishing third because, while she was the season’s best and most consistent dancer – the other two competitors, duh, were Kirstie Alley and Hines Ward. And that’s how it rolls when you let viewers/fans do 50 percent of the deciding. Plus, Chelsea needed more lift in her back story. She and Mark should have practiced their sprains. They should have gone to the hospital, even just to visit a friend.

All three finalists earned perfect scores from the show’s three judges Tuesday when they re-performed their fave dance from the season.

Chelsea and Mark Ballas chose their Wizard Waltz that had judge Len Goodman’s knickers in such a bunch when first they performed it.

Kirstie Alley and Maks Chmerkovskiy chose the cha cha cha she did the first week of the show because she wanted “to show fans that the dress is half the size it was in week one.” It was her first perfect score of the season.

And Hines and Kym Johnson re-did the Samba to Mama he’d done very early in the 10-week competition.