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If you’ve been “waiting all day” for the grand unveiling of Carrie Underwood<\/a>‘s new\u00a0Sunday Night Football<\/em> theme song, wait no longer.<\/p>\n The 2025 iteration of the\u00a0SNF<\/em> anthem premiered on Sunday night (Sept. 7), before a hotly-anticipated NFL matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Baltimore Ravens at New York’s Highmark Stadium.<\/p>\n It’s Underwood’s 13th season delivering the\u00a0SNF<\/em> theme, and she stuck with tradition.<\/p>\n Production value was high for her performance, as she took the stage amid flashing cameras, a dramatic string section and dancing NFL cheerleaders.<\/p>\n Also interspersed in the performances were shots of game play.<\/p>\n Each\u00a0SNF<\/em> theme song is tailored around the two teams who are about to go head to head, so Sunday night’s iteration featured clips of the Ravens and the Bills. Underwood also mentioned the teams specifically in the personalized lyrics.<\/p>\n “Waited all day and ALL SUMMER to hear the SNF anthem!” Underwood\u00a0writes in the caption for her post of the full performance, which she shared jointly with NBC’s\u00a0Sunday Night Football\u00a0<\/em>account.<\/p>\n Watch the full 2025\u00a0SNF<\/em> theme below.<\/p>\n Musical theme songs have been a part of the game-watching experience<\/a> since the 1980s.<\/p>\n That’s not unique to NBC: ABC has their own Monday night version with Hank Williams Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pop singer Pink sang the\u00a0SNF<\/em> theme in 2006, and she was the first to record “Waiting All Day\u00a0for Sunday Night.”<\/p>\n Faith Hill took over the role in 2007, and spent six seasons as the pre-broadcast entertainment before passing the torch to Underwood.<\/p>\n Underwood has taken some creative liberties during her time as the show’s opener.<\/p>\n She created a football-friendly version of her Miranda Lambert duet “Something Bad,” reconfiguring the song as “Oh Sunday Night<\/a>.” During another season, she recorded her own original song, “Game On.”<\/p>\n But in recent seasons, Underwood has returned to the old favorite “Waiting All Day\u00a0for Sunday Night.” For the NFL’s 100th anniversary in 2019, she even invited Jett to join her in the opening video.<\/p>\n Exact figures aren’t available, but safe to say Underwood makes a tidy payday for her\u00a0SNF<\/em> opening spot.<\/p>\nWhat\u00a0Is the ‘Sunday Night Football’ Theme Song?<\/h3>\n
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