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| Carrie Underwood |
Country music superstar Underwood, the season-four winner of
American Idol, makes her Sunday Night Football debut on Sunday, September 8 on
NBC’s first SNF broadcast of the 2013 NFL season, a heated NFC East rivalry
game when Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants. The opening theme will
continue each week kicking off Sunday Night Football every Sunday night
throughout the NFL season on NBC.
“I am thrilled to be a part of NBC’s Sunday Night Football
and am so honored they asked me,” said Underwood. “I have always loved football
season, and it is so exciting to now become part of it every Sunday night!”
Since winning American Idol and releasing her debut album in
2005, Underwood has sold over 15 million albums, and placed 17 No. 1 singles on
the charts. Her recent album, Blown
Away, made history by debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums
Chart, making Underwood only the second country artist in the 47-year history
of the chart to have each of their first four albums debut at No. 1.
I am so excited to be a part of Sunday Night Football!!! I've been a football fan my entire life...We're going to have so much fun!
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) May 7, 2013
“Carrie Underwood was our first and only choice to perform
the Sunday Night Football opening,” said SNF producer Fred Gaudelli. “She’s one
of America ’s
most popular entertainers and the perfect fit for our show.”
“Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” is set to the original
Joan Jett song, “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and marks Underwood’s first
production with NBC Sports. From 2007-2012, the song was performed by music
superstar Faith Hill and in 2006, the inaugural season of Sunday Night
Football, Pink performed the open.
Underwood is currently headlining and selling out arenas
across North America on her “Blown Away Tour.”
The tour, which launched last June, has played in the United States, Canada,
the U.K., Ireland, and Australia, and will perform a total of 112 dates by the
time is wraps on May 23 in Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
Sunday Night Football, which averaged 21.8 million viewers
in the 2012 season, is primetime television’s No. 1 program.
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