Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly; bacon and eggs; Carrie Underwood and Sunday Night Football. NFL fans were ecstatic when the “Before He Cheats” hitmaker returned to their screens to belt “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” for the 12th straight year. Alas, fans will now likely have to wait an entire year to hear the iconic song again. But, no doubt Underwood will go out with a bang.
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The NFL Wraps Up Its Regular Season
The Minnesota Vikings will square up against the Detroit Lions tonight (Sunday, Jan. 5) at Ford Field in Detroit. The game kicks off at 8:20 p.m. Eastern on NBC.
Minnesota and Detroit meet each other evenly matched at 14-2 each. In fact, this is the first regular season game in NFL history to feature two teams with 28 combined wins. The winner nabs the NFC North championship, along with the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs.
good luck to your vikings tonight, it’s gonna be on hell of a SNF matchup. Like Carrie underwood says, we’re waiting all day for sunday night
— MAGAhombre🇺🇸 (@MAGAhombre2024) January 5, 2025
But the epic matchup can’t begin until Carrie Underwood says so. And it seems that gridiron fans are equally excited to hear what is likely her final Sunday Night Football performance of the season.
“I think I’m at my most american during the carrie underwood sunday night football theme song,” one user wrote on X/Twitter.
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The 16-time ACM Award winner took the Sunday Night Football reins from Faith Hill in 2013. She sings a revamped version of Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” with the chorus and title changed to “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.”
Will Carrie Underwood Perform The Theme Song in the Playoffs?
Sunday (Jan. 5) marks the final game of the 2024-25 NFL regular season. Wild card weekend begins Saturday (Jan. 11,) followed by divisional rounds the next week. The Jan. 26 conference championships will determine the Super Bowl LIX teams Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Many fans are likely wondering if Carrie Underwood will get them hyped for the playoffs. Unfortunately, the answer is most likely no, as she did not perform during last year’s postseason.
The news will likely further disappoint viewers who were already upset that the “Blown Away” singer left the Sunday Night Football theme off her New Year’s Rockin’ Eve setlist.
Disappointed that Carrie Underwood didn’t sing the Sunday Night Football song
— Sam Sklar (@sklarsam_) January 1, 2025
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