
Underwood's new opening video will debut ahead of the Sept. We bet you remember at least one of them.

Watch the video above to learn who the other pop and country stars to sing "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" were. It's been filmed in various places through the years, including the Atlanta Falcons stadium in 2019.

In each case, NFL players and NBC announcers made cameo appearances in the video element of the Sunday Night Football introduction. The song would become a Top 10 hit, but ended its radio run before being used to make "Oh, Sunday Night" in 2016. In 2014, Lambert and Underwood recorded "Somethin' Bad" together for Lambert's Platinum album. However, it was dropped that fall.Īs for the Lambert song that Underwood used? This is the most curious of decisions, as it really didn't benefit the one-time American Idol winner any and had no natural connection to football. The lawsuit included nine defendants, Underwood, the NFL and NBC among them. Heidi Merrill claimed she pitched a song called "Game On" to Underwood's producer in 2017, and even uploaded her version to YouTube. This Underwood original was used for just one season before becoming the center of a lawsuit in the summer of 2019. It's a Platinum single that was never sent to radio, but is undeniably among her best songs to make an album ( Cry Pretty, from 2018).Ībout seven months later, "Game On" would debut as the new Sunday Night Football theme song. That honor goes to Underwood and Ludacris' collaboration of "The Champion," written for Super Bowl 52 on NBC and performed during most of her concerts in the years that have followed.

While "Waiting All Day for Sunday" night has been a football staple for more than 15 (interrupted) years, it might not be the most commercially successful Carrie Underwood song the network has used.
