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Carrie Underwood’s NFL Contract Explained: Fact-Checking Rumors About Singer’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ Paycheck

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Carrie Underwood’s NFL Contract Explained: Fact-Checking Rumors About Singer’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ Paycheck

The “Sunday Night Football” soundtrack is nothing without Carrie Underwood.

For more than a decade, the famous country singer has been the lone voice on the penultimate matchup of each week during each NFL season. As “I’ve Been Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” reverberates across America’s living rooms, it’s impossible to ignore Underwood’s influence in setting the mood for what is often the best board game of the weekend.

Needless to say, the artist’s talent doesn’t come cheap, and his NFL anthem earnings have become a topic of conversation in football circles across the internet this week.

Here’s everything you need to know about Underwood’s rumored contract with the league, including fact-checking the singer’s shocking “Sunday Night Football” paycheck.

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Carrie Underwood’s NFL contract, explained

A tweet from the NFL’s popular social media platform ML Football went viral on Thursday claiming that Underwood makes $1 million every week his SNF ballad is played. That equates to $18 million for the promotional video he does at the start of the season.

The post was quickly debunked thanks to a tweet from user Molly Vegas, who shared a clip from a May 2023 interview Underwood did on “The Howard Stern Show.”

In the excerpt, the singer responds to a question from Stern about the $18 million figure with confusion and denial.

“For me? … No. It’s pretty pro bono,” Underwood replied. “I wish! That would be great, that would be great!

ML Football’s tweet now has a community note, detailing that the claim is “false”.

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How long has Carrie Underwood been working on ‘Sunday Night Football’?

Underwood was first asked to sing the opening of SNF in 2006, right after winning the fourth season of American Idol. As the winner of the show, her career took off and she was soon producing million selling albums, winning Grammys and performing in front of hundreds of thousands of fans.

However, he declined the offer because of the work that was left in his life, according to an interview with Yahoo. Pink eventually became the Sunday night singer for one season before Faith Hill took over for six years, eventually leaving the gig.

It was in 2013 that the network offered Underwood the role again, and this time she accepted. It’s been 12 seasons since the 41-year-old opened her most recent campaign with the opener of the SNF Rams vs. Lions on September 8.

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