Carrie Underwood’s epic Sunday Night Football open has arrived.
The country music megastar delivered a powerful performance — both as a singer and a drummer — of “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” in her 11th consecutive year. The highly-anticipated video made its debut on Sunday (September 10). Underwood’s record label previously teased “a concert performance interspersed with augmented reality highlights displayed across a halo scoreboard.”
“Once again, the incredible Sunday Night Football team came up with a fresh, exciting visual concept that really gave us a chance to play,” Underwood said in a statement earlier this year. “I loved shooting the show open again this year at our home away from home, The Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas [where Underwood performs her Las Vegas residency, REFLECTION], and can’t wait for another season of football!
“I love being the voice of Sunday Night Football because I grew up watching football…from birth,” Underwood said, per her label. “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.”
Watch Underwood’s latest Sunday Night Football open here: