Carrie Underwood Football Song: Star Takes 'Waiting for Sunday' (VIDEO)
Carrie Underwood can't wait for Sunday night football. To prove it, the singer will replace Faith Hill in the long standing tradition of singing "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" before big games.
The Grammy award-winning country singer debuted her own rendition for the song on Sunday just ahead of the Dallas Cowboy game against the New York Giants. Underwood said in a previous interview that inheriting the gig from Faith Hill, who sang the song for six seasons of football, is something that she had always wanted.
"For me, it just always seemed like something that would be fun to do," she told the Huffington Post in May after Hill announced her retirement. "To watch Faith do it week after week, to see that hype for the game, it's something that's so cool."
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Underwood first rose to fame in 2005 after winning the fourth season of "American Idol." Since, she has produced multiple platinum records and won six Grammy awards. But despite all of her success, her friends say that fame hasn't changed her.
"Carrie didn't let fame change her," her best friend, Ivey Childers, told Marie Claire magazine during an interview earlier this year. And for Underwood, staying true means not always being the most sociable person.
"She was never super-outgoing. And she doesn't feel the need to overcompensate now," Childers said.
"She was never really a people person," said Carole, the star's mother.
Underwood agrees with those close to her. She says she wishes she was "softer" but blames her poor social skills on being the much younger sibling.
"Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me -- I was the accident -- so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent," she explained.
