{"id":50056,"date":"2026-08-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=50056"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:06:39","slug":"carrie-underwood-returns-to-sunday-night-football-with-a-rock-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/carrie-underwood-returns-to-sunday-night-football-with-a-rock-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Returns To \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019 With A Rock Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>\u00a0is heading back to\u00a0<em>Sunday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0for her 14th consecutive year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC Sports announced that the country star will once again perform &#8220;Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,&#8221; this time with a rock-inspired makeover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s show open welcomes\u00a0<em>Sunday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0into my ongoing rock star fever dream. It&#8217;s one of my most favorite opens yet!&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Creative director Tripp Dixon said the revamp drew &#8220;inspiration from her deep, well-documented love of rock music.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anthem was originally inspired by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts&#8217; &#8220;I Hate Myself for Loving You,&#8221; making the rock reimagining a natural fit. Underwood first took on the role in 2013, following Pink and Faith Hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She recently wrapped her second season as an\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em>\u00a0judge and will perform at the Grand Ole Opry in late August.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dbnu5-8Ka1I\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood\u00a0is heading back to\u00a0Sunday Night Football\u00a0for her 14th consecutive year. NBC Sports announced that the country star will once again perform &#8220;Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,&#8221; this time with a rock-inspired makeover. &#8220;This year&#8217;s show open welcomes\u00a0Sunday Night Football\u00a0into my ongoing rock star fever dream. It&#8217;s one of my most favorite opens yet!&#8221;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":50057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96,416,583,1140,97,7671],"class_list":["post-50056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-nbc","tag-nfl","tag-snf","tag-sunday-night-football","tag-waiting-all-day-for-sunday-night"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-14 12:44:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/carrie-underwood-returns-to-sunday-night-football-with-a-rock-twist\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50058,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50056\/revisions\/50058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}