The race to Super Bowl LIX starts tonight (Jan. 12) with NFL Wild Card Weekend Sunday. Only two teams can face off for football’s ultimate title on Feb. 9 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tonight sees the Philadelphia Eagles squaring off at home against the Green Bay Packers, while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will host the Washington Commanders. For many viewers, though, it just isn’t Sunday night until Carrie Underwood tells them so. Unfortunately, it appears we may have heard the last of “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” this NFL season.
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No More Carrie Underwood, and NFL Fans Are Heartbroken
Carrie Underwood has performed the Sunday Night Football theme song for more than a decade, taking the reins from Faith Hill in 2013. The American Idol judge 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.”
In Underwood’s capable hands, “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” has become more ritual than song. In fact, fans now wait all week for Sunday night. “Pure adrenaline. A call to action. Got me ready to run through a wall,” one X/Twitter user wrote of her Jan. 5 performance.
She Records All Version In One Sitting
Traditionally, the “Before He Cheats” songstress has only graced us with “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” during the regular season. In fact, Carrie Underwood revealed in a September 2023 interview with The Morning Mash Up on SiriusXM Hits 1 that she records all versions of the Sunday Night Football anthem at once.
God bless Carrie Underwood and the last “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” of the football season
— Angel 👨🏽💻 (@angelguerrerooo) January 6, 2025
“It’s one main version, top to bottom, and then kind of filling in lines,” the country superstar said, adding, “I do the whole main version, but then we go through and pick up all the matchups for each week of regular-season football, and then we go into playoff football. And I then sing every possible combination of teams that could possibly maybe play each other.”
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While she does mention playoffs in that interview, Underwood did not sing “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” during last year’s postseason. Unfortunately, that means fans will likely be waiting all year for Sunday night.
And with that, we shall seal Carrie Underwood away until the '25-'26 NFL Season.
— Paul Martin (@bakpuckpaul) January 6, 2025
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