Dancing with the Stars Season 3

Dancing With The Stars Season 3 brought the show to its standard format, appearing for the first time in the fall lineup on ABC. The judge trio of Goodman, Inaba, and Tonioli remained solid, while Tom Bergeron had a particularly strong season.

Dancing With The Stars Season 3 Judges: Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli

Dancing With The Stars Season 3 Co-Hosts: Tom Bergeron, Samantha Harris

Dancing With The Stars Season 3 Time: Autumn 2006

Dancing with the Stars Contestants - Season 3

Here's a list of Dancing With The Stars contestants from Season 3.

The list of contestants in Season Three seemed particularly random--and particularly intriguing. You had everything from political wonks in Tucker Carlson to tabloid talk show legends, if there can be such a thing, like Jerry Springer.

Dancing with the Stars Season 3 - Dancing Pairs

And here's a list of the dancing pairs from Dancing With The Stars Season 3.

Say what you will about him, Emmitt Smith is a winner. While he may not have been the best running back to ever play the game, Emmitt Smith had the best career an NFL running back ever produced. He was a 3-time Superbowl winner, a 4-time rushing champion, a Superbowl MVP, an NFL MVP, and the all-time leading rusher in the history of the National Football League. So it was no surprise that Emmitt Smith would come out on top of this competition.

The real surprise was the skill Emmitt Smith showed on the dance floor. After Jerry Rice, many assumed that football moves and dance moves were polar opposites. But Emmitt had the moves to beat out the two pretty boys who kept moving through the competition, Mario Lopez and Joey Lawrence.