It’s the most wonderful time of the year—football season, that is. Tonight (Sept. 29) marks Week 4 of Sunday Night Football. The undefeated Buffalo Bills kick-off against the 1-2 Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium at 8:20 p.m. Eastern on NBC. While the Bills won big against the Jacksonville Jaguars last week, the Ravens narrowly escaped the Dallas Cowboys with a 28-25 victory. As NFL fans eagerly awaited the best night of the week, Carrie Underwood once again whipped them up into a frenzy with another exhilarating performance of “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.”
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Carrie Underwood Sunday Night Football song automatically makes me happy fr fr unreal aura,” one fan wrote on X. “will never get tired of seeing Carrie Underwood on my TV screen every Sunday night,” another viewer added. But maybe the best take was from the fan who tweeted, “Hell is an endless highway with bumper to bumper traffic without a single exit on the entire road. Heaven is Carrie Underwood singing waiting all day for sunday night and ur there live and it’s glorious.”
Carrie Underwood Is In Her 12th Season of ‘Sunday Night Football’
In 2013, best-selling country artist Carrie Underwood took the Sunday Night Football reins from Faith Hill. Fresh off her season 4 victory on American Idol, the “Before He Cheats” singer was actually the network’s first choice to perform the theme when the program debuted in 2006. She turned it down, however, and the gig went to Pink.
Pink performed “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night,” a reworking of Joan Jett’s 1988 hit “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” Faith Hill took over the next season, performing for six years before Underwood finally accepted the job.
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After trying out such variations as “Oh, Sunday Night” and Game on,” the network eventually settled on the Joan Jett adaptation in 2019. Now, fans wait all week to hear Carrie Underwood belt, I’ve been waiting all day for Sunday Night.
That Time Carrie Teamed Up With Joan Jett
Despite quite different sounds, both Carrie Underwood and Joan Jett have blazed trails in their respective genres. To commemorate the NFL’s 100th season back in 2019, Underwood joined forces with the “Crimson and Clover” rocker for a special rendition of “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.”
“It is her song,” Underwood said. “I will use any excuse I can to work with Joan Jett. I just hope I can keep up.”
The eight-time GRAMMY winner admitted it was “intimidating” to share studio space with a “legend” like Jett. But, as you can see below, she more than held her ground.
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