As the awesome season of Dancing with the Stars comes to a close, I’ve followed a lot of it, and it was the most entertaining, by far. The finalists all deserved mirror ball trophies!

Congratulations to the three top teams Winner Green Bay Packer Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd; opera singer Katherine Jenkins and Mark Ballas; and Latin star William Levy and Cheryl Burke.

My family of cheesehead fans watched Triple D dance and bring that mirror ball trophy to title town Green Bay, Wisconsin — as urged by fellow Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews in one funny skit.

Observations great and small: I don’t know who dressed tennis hall of famer Martina Navratilova in that fishnet thrown over a sparkle bra and shag pants, but that was disrespectful. She deserved so much better.

Jaleel White showed us that “Family Matters” Steve Urkel (“Did I do that?”) really can dance with partner Kym Johnson. Legendary eight-time Grammy winner Gladys Knight is one awesome singer and dancer at age 68 with partner Tristan MacManus.

Congrats to Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd. Driver joins a series of NFL football players to win the trophy. Emmitt Smith won Season 3 and Hines Ward won Season 12. Several other NFL stars made it into the late rounds of DWTS.

Pam Parker is an award-winning writer and editor for Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.