Carrie Underwood Officially Kicks Off 2025 ‘Sunday Night Football’ With “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” Theme Song

She’s BACK.

This evening, Carrie Underwood once again kicked off the NFL football season for the 13th straight year, performing the Sunday Night Football show open on NBC ahead of the game, which finds the past two NFL MVPs Lamar Jackson and the AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens visit Josh Allen and the AFC East champion Buffalo Bills in a rematch of last season’s AFC Divisional Playoff game.

Carrie began performing the Sunday Night Football theme song back in 2013, and in 2016 debuted the “Oh, Sunday Night” theme song, which was a spinoff of her 2016 duet with Miranda Lambert, “Somethin’ Bad.”

And then in 2018, Carrie debuted another new theme song, “Game On,” which she co-wrote with Brett James and Chris DeStefano. However that song resulted in a copyright lawsuit and Sunday Night Football reverted back to the original theme song, “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” which was adapted from Joan Jett’s 1988 hit “I Hate Myself for Loving You.”

This season was once again filmed at The Resorts World Theater, where Carrie’s Las Vegas REFLECTION residency took place, and as is the norm with the SNF opener, the video itself always looks a bit different each weekend depending on the game’s location and what the matchup is. The lyrics also change slightly each week depending on the teams featured.

Tripp Dixon, creative director of the SNF show open for each of the past 13 years, says this year’s SNF open will be extra special as they celebrate the 20th season:

“For the 20th season of SNF, we wanted to set the tone for the night by reimagining the anthem sound in a way that plays to Carrie’s powerhouse vocals, while visually creating a seamless blend of stylized shots and behind-the-scenes moments evoking the national roadshow that is Sunday Night Football, week after week in the fall.”

Carrie says it was a blast to shoot, and she can’t wait for everyone to see it pretty soon:

“We had a blast shooting the new opening at The Resorts World Theatre again. As always, Tripp and the creative team continue to raise the bar, bringing the high energy and stunning visuals that the Sunday Night Football audience has come to expect year after year. I can’t wait for the world to see it!”

Of course, Faith Hill was the SNF girl for many years, belting out “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” every weekend on TV’s across America, but I’ve loved seeing Carrie step up and carry on the torch over the last decade. If anyone is on Faith’s level in terms of vocal ability, it’s Carrie Underwood.

She nailed it once again, and I hope all of you football fans enjoyed your Sunday much more than this once again very sad and distraught Carolina Panthers fan…

Carrie is just so bad***, and I love seeing her every Sunday evening on my TV screen because I love her, and also because it means football is back and fall is pretty much here. Check it out:

Waited all day and ALL SUMMER to hear the SNF anthem! pic.twitter.com/F7G9PiM7cr

— Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC) September 8, 2025

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