NBC’s Sunday Night Football, primetime television’s No. 1 program for an unprecedented eight consecutive years, will unveil an all-new show open with Carrie Underwood this season, with a nod to the first-ever NBC SNF open in 2006 featuring a new rendition of the original “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” music.
Underwood, the seven-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist, stars in the NBC SNF show open for the seventh consecutive year and welcomes Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett, who makes an appearance during Underwood’s performance.
You know it.
You love it.
And you've been WAITING ALL DAY FOR IT. @carrieunderwood and @joanjett are bringing back our iconic opening song this season: https://t.co/CKakj8arWd pic.twitter.com/q5o03f86CE
— Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC) August 20, 2019
At the invitation of Underwood, Jett – whose 1988 Top 10 hit “I Hate Myself for Loving You” was adapted for the original “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” SNF show open music in 2006 – appears for the first time in the NBC Sunday Night Football show open. Carrie will also be joined by NFL stars (to be announced on Monday) in the new show open.
“I have always been a huge fan of Joan’s, and I’m thrilled that she’s joining us for the Sunday Night Football open,” said Carrie. “What better way to pay homage to the original SNF opening song than by getting to play with her on primetime’s biggest stage?”
“When Carrie brought us this idea, we immediately embraced it as a terrific way to evolve the performance, while also celebrating the song we used in our first 10 seasons of SNF,” said Fred Gaudelli, Executive Producer of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. “We were excited when Joan agreed to join us, and we can’t wait to debut the finished product.”
*At halftime of this Sunday night’s preseason game (August 25th) on NBC (Pittsburgh Steelers at Tennessee Titans, 8pm ET), a sneak preview of the SNF show open will air. The full 2019 NBC Sunday Night Football show open will debut on Sunday, September 8th, as the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots host the Pittsburgh Steelers.
For the first time in the series’ 14 seasons, the SNF show open was filmed inside an NFL Stadium with Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons, serving as the “stage.”
| 2019 NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SCHEDULE | ||
| Thurs. Sept. 5 | NFL Kickoff | Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears |
| Sun. Sept. 8 | Week 1 | Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots |
| Sun. Sept. 15 | Week 2 | Philadelphia Eagles at Atlanta Falcons |
| Sun. Sept. 22 | Week 3 | Los Angeles Rams at Cleveland Browns |
| Sun. Sept. 29 | Week 4 | Dallas Cowboys at New Orleans Saints |
| *Sun. Oct. 6 | Week 5 | Indianapolis Colts at Kansas City Chiefs |
| *Sun. Oct. 13 | Week 6 | Pittsburgh Steelers at Los Angeles Chargers |
| *Sun. Oct. 20 | Week 7 | Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys |
| *Sun. Oct. 27 | Week 8 | Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs |
| *Sun. Nov. 3 | Week 9 | New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens |
| *Sun. Nov. 10 | Week 10 | Minnesota Vikings at Dallas Cowboys |
| *Sun. Nov. 17 | Week 11 | Chicago Bears at Los Angeles Rams |
| *Sun. Nov. 24 | Week 12 | Seattle Seahawks at Philadelphia Eagles |
| **Thurs. Nov. 28 | Week 13 | New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons |
| *Sun. Dec. 1 | Week 13 | New England Patriots at Houston Texans |
| *Sun. Dec. 8 | Week 14 | Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Rams |
| *Sun. Dec. 15 | Week 15 | Minnesota Vikings at Los Angeles Chargers |
| *Sun. Dec. 22 | Week 16 | Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Bears |
| *Sun. Dec. 29 | Week 17 | TBD |
*Flex Week
** Thanksgiving Night Game
Audio / CARRIE UNDERWOOD IS SUCH A BIG FAN OF FOOTBALL, AND SHE IS THRILLED TO BE A PART OF SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.
DownloadCarrie Underwood (loves being a part of SNF) OC: …my whole life. :54
“I love being the voice of Sunday Night Football because I grew up watching football…from birth. I’m from Oklahoma – we’re a football state. It’s just a part of the country that everybody has their teams and there’s such an energy about it. We would drive down to Dallas and watch the Cowboys play whenever we could. There’s just something about being at a live sporting event or watching it on TV. You have your favorites. They have their rivals. There’s an excitement to it that really, it’s unlike anything else, so being a small part of that is absolutely amazing. It’s been so wonderful working with everybody at SNF, and I count myself very lucky and very blessed that I get to be a small part of something that I’ve loved my whole life.”
