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After winning \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d in 2005<\/a>, Carrie Underwood rose through the country music hierarchy with hits such as \u201cBefore He Cheats\u201d and \u201cJesus Take the Wheel.\u201d But despite her eight Grammys, Underwood says she is perhaps most recognized for a song that is not even streamable on Apple Music or Spotify.<\/p>\n For the past 12 seasons, Underwood has been the musical opener for NBC\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Football,\u201d the prime-time N.F.L. game that is the most watched weekly program on television. Last season it averaged 21.6 million viewers, more than the 2025 broadcasts for the Academy Awards<\/a> and the Grammys<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWaiting All Day for Sunday Night,\u201d<\/a> the song Underwood has transformed into an unofficial football anthem, is an adaptation of \u201cI Hate Myself for Loving You,<\/a>\u201d the rock song released in 1988 by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.<\/p>\n And it comes with a four-second twist.<\/p>\n Each week\u2019s rendition includes one customized lyric that highlights the upcoming matchup. Last season, those lyrical flourishes included declarations about the Los Angeles Rams vs. the Detroit Lions \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2026 the Chicago Bears vs. the Houston Texans \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After winning \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d in 2005, Carrie Underwood rose through the country music hierarchy with hits such as \u201cBefore He Cheats\u201d and \u201cJesus Take the Wheel.\u201d But despite her eight Grammys, Underwood says she is perhaps most recognized for a song that is not even streamable on Apple Music or Spotify. For the past 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[305461,24362,21800,365493,365492,310528,22205,305462,308355],"class_list":["post-2005031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-carrie","tag-football","tag-music","tag-nashville-tenn","tag-national-broadcasting-co","tag-national-football-league","tag-television","tag-underwood","tag-vis-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carrie-Underwoods-Lyrical-Blitz-of-the-NFL.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}