

As in past years, various NFL players will appear in the opening alongside Underwood and Jett.ħ. The footage for the opener was shot in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, marking the first time in 14 years that the opening was filmed inside a stadium.Ħ. 2019 is the first season of the show where a song collaboration has been featured as the opener.ĥ. Carrie has been singing a different tune for the past three years.Ĥ. From 2006 to 2015, SNF's theme song was based on Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You" and was titled "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night."ģ. I've just let everyone there know it's time 2 let. Amazing 2 have been part of SNF - an honor. Sunday Night Football launched its first broadcast in 2006.Ģ. NBC telecasts of 'Sunday Night Football' will be lacking faith this season. In the meantime, here are 7 Facts you need to know before Sunday.ġ. This time, however, she has teamed up with rock and roll legend, Joan Jett.Ĭarrie shared the teaser clip on her Instagram saying, "Tune inSeptember 8th! The video is all the hype we need to set a calendar reminder.

I’d probably end up singing the football version onstage by accident.Hut! Hut! Carrie Underwood is at it again, kicking off the NFL football season. “I’m just glad I don’t have to sing the new versions. “I’m not Kanye West and I’m not on the radio all the time, so it helps keep my band paid,” she says. So that’s $272,000 as a base figure, which will be split 50/50 with Desmond Child.” When added to performance royalties, international screenings of ‘SNF,’ as well as sales of the original track prompted by fans hearing it, Gretton estimates it would have netted at least a cool half-million for Jett alone.īizarrely, the writers of “I Hate Myself for Loving You” initially didn’t want to hand over their baby to NBC, but Jett has come to terms with it. “But even so, it’s a well-viewed show, so I think she probably got a couple of grand a week, times that by a 17-week season over eight years. “ 2006 was a bit of a lean period for Joan, so NBC probably low-balled her,” she speculates. This 80s Hit From Joan Jett Is Enjoying Renewed Popularity With The New Version By Pink, And Heard As The Opening Theme For Nbcs Sunday Night Football. Veronica Gretton, founder of New York based music publishing company 401K Music Inc., estimates that although Jett won’t be hurting financially, she probably hasn’t earned quite enough to move next door to Mark Zuckerberg just yet. The track got a new lease on life in 2006 when NBC picked it up to be the theme tune of their primetime football show and renamed it “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.” Over the past eight years, new versions with altered lyrics have been sung by Pink, Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood, but Jett and co-writer Child have enjoyed the spoils.

Released in 1988 and co-written with songwriter Desmond Child (who also co-wrote some of Bon Jovi’s biggest singles), it originally hit the Top 10 on the Billboard chart. The rock ’n’ roll queen isn’t someone who allows herself to splurge on $75,000 electric cars or other flashy accessories very often, but it’s one of the things that “I Hate Myself for Loving You” - the theme to NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” - has bought her.

“When I bought it a few months back, it was the only one in Nassau County,” Jett, now 55 and still touring hard with her band the Blackhearts, tells The Post. She’ll be the one riding around in a brand-new Cadillac ELR. Faith Hill will no longer feature on the opening theme for NBC s primetime Sunday Night Football show after announcing she is leaving after six years. The next time you happen to be on Long Island, look out for Joan Jett.
