Carrie Underwood To Replace Faith Hill In Singing NBC’s Sunday Night Football Intro

For the past six years, NBC's Sunday Night Football has been introduced by Faith Hill singing "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," but starting this fall, that honor will be given to American Idol alum and country/pop superstar, Carrie Underwood.

Did you know that P!nk used to sing the SNF intro too?

Yeah, all the way back in 2006 P!nk was featured singing the intro song, Hill took over in 2007 and has been doing it ever since.

I'm all for the move, no offense to Hill, but I never really liked her versions of the intro. Who knows how much of that was actually her fault, but I am excited to see what Underwood can do with it.

Underwood took to Twitter to share the news yesterday:

Oh, and if "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night" sounds a bit familiar, it's actually a reworking of the Joan Jett song "I Hate Myself for Loving You." (You'll thank me for that tidbit someday when you play trivia.)

From NBC Sports:

NBC selected six-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist, Carrie Underwood, to perform “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” the opening theme for primetime television’s No. 1 program, Sunday Night Football on NBC. Country music superstar Underwood, the season-four winner of American Idol, makes her Sunday Night Football debut on Sunday, September 8 on NBC’s first SNF broadcast of the 2013 NFL season, a heated NFC East rivalry game when Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants. The opening theme will continue each week kicking off Sunday Night Football every Sunday night throughout the NFL season on NBC.