{"id":29530,"date":"2024-09-12T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=29530"},"modified":"2024-09-12T05:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:16:54","slug":"carrie-underwood-initially-turned-down-sunday-night-football-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/09\/carrie-underwood-initially-turned-down-sunday-night-football-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Initially Turned Down &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; began in 2006, and Pink was the performer of the theme song in their debut season.<\/p>\n<p>She only lasted one year before being replaced by Faith Hill for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it was Carrie Underwood, who just kicked off her 12th straight season performing &#8220;Waiting All Day for Sunday Night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that producers wanted Carrie to be the star from the beginning?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/carrie-underwood-sunday-night-football-producers-lift-the-lid-on-this-years-very-different-show-open-and-how-the-singer-took-over-for-faith-hill-pink-exclusive-110013213.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Gaudelli, the executive producer of NBC&#8217;s NFL coverage, said<\/a> that when &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; initially started out, they wanted Carrie for the job. But she was fresh off her win on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; and was overwhelmed with commitments.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he even said that when they first reached out, she, &#8220;wasn&#8217;t really interested.&#8221; But when Faith stepped down, NBC approached Carrie again, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1827887052756603013&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; began in 2006, and Pink was the performer of the theme song in their debut season.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[673,3916,745,4606],"class_list":["post-29530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-faith-hill","tag-pink","tag-sunday-night-football"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 14:37:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/09\/carrie-underwood-initially-turned-down-sunday-night-football-gig\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}