Overview

• Underwood’s performance of “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” opened the Ravens–Bills broadcast on September 7 at Highmark Stadium, marking her 13th consecutive season as SNF’s voice.
• A June recording session yielded more than 80 versions so producers can swap lyrics and lines to fit weekly teams and storylines.
• NBC producer Rob Hyland said the season opener’s lyrics spotlighted quarterbacks Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.
• Creative director Tripp Dixon said the anthem sound was reimagined to showcase Underwood’s vocals for SNF’s 20th season, with the new video filmed at Las Vegas’s Resorts World Theatre.
• Underwood has denied reports that she is paid $18 million annually for the theme, and neither she nor NBC has disclosed official compensation figures.