Carrie Underwood Takes Center Stage At Sunday Night Football
Carrie Underwood will star in the show open for NBC’s Sunday Night Football for the 12th consecutive season beginning September 8 on NBC and Peacock.
The new open celebrates the Sunday Night Football “road show” that visits NFL cities each weekend, embracing the pageantry and anticipation for each matchup. Underwood performed the open from The Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas, home of her ongoing residency, “Reflection.”
Carrie said, “It was so much fun to welcome the Sunday Night Football team back to the Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas. Shooting the new show open is always something I look forward to, and Tripp and the whole creative team brought it yet again, and we had a great day putting on an exciting new performance. Like everybody else, I’m waiting all day for Sunday night!”
Tripp Dixon, creative director of the Sunday Night Football show open for each of the past 12 years, added, “Carrie once again delivers a show-stopping performance in combination with backstage and behind-the-scenes energy to set the tone for this special night.”
The show open for Sunday Night Football will debut on Sunday, September 8 on NBC and Peacock leading into Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams visiting Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions in an NFC Wild Card Playoff rematch on the season debut of Sunday Night Football.
In Spring 2025, the country star joins the judging panel for American Idol for the hit show’s eighth season on ABC and Hulu. Her return celebrates the 20th anniversary of winning the title, joining Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie on as judges and longtime host Ryan Seacrest.
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Few Love Songs
Underwood does not have many love songs in her catalog. Over the years, I’ve often chatted with Carrie when she told me about her omission of the standard love song.
She told me in one of those interviews not long ago, “It’s never been a conscious thing to exclude love songs (laughs). I just think, in general, I find them like static. Like, I hear something, or it doesn’t seem genuine to me.”
Underwood did record a love song on her 2015 Storytellers album, which she co-wrote. She told me of the song at the time, “I mean writing ‘Heartbeat,’ I feel like I was the last one that was into it while we were writing it. Because I don’t do really love songs. It was just there; it was something that kind of seemed real and conversational and had a real-life about it.”
