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Carrie Underwood records new 'Sunday Night Football' theme song

Carrie Underwood getting her football on in the studio.

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Carrie Underwood getting her football on in the studio.
By Melissa Ruggieri
June 20, 2016

Carrie Underwood returns as the voice to introduce “Sunday Night Football,” but this season, she’s singing a new tune.

The familiar “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” set to Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” has been bumped after a 10-season run and will be replaced by “Oh, Sunday Night,” a new tune set to the music of “Somethin’ Bad,” Underwood’s 2014 hit with Miranda Lambert.

The song is described as a mix of country, rock and pop.

Underwood worked with the writers of “Somethin’ Bad” - Chris DeStefano, Brett James, and Priscilla Renea – to recast the lyrics as “Sunday Night Football” appropriate.

Fans will hear the new opening on NBC on Sept. 11, when the New England Patriots take on the Arizona Cardinals.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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