Do you ever have that thing where you wake up with a song you heard the day before, going through your head, and it ends up going through your head the rest of the day? Well for me, on Mondays, that is often the Sunday Night Football theme, as belted-out by Carrie Underwood. Sometimes that's annoying, but now it's a welcome respite from Christmas carols.
But it also got me thinking about it. For one thing, why would anyone Wait All Day For Sunday Night? There are games on all afternoon. But there's also the way they work in a line describing that night's game (eg, "Saints and Panthers: a division showdown") I always wondered if that means they had her sing the song over and over again, with the line changed for each game. If so, how do they avoid getting snarky with the lyrics ("Bills and Vikings, there's nothing else on.") Or they call her into the studio every week to re-record that one line. That would surely also lead to some resentment ("Falcons and Texans, it looked good in July.")
That doesn't seem likely, but then it occurred to me that some of the Sunday night games aren't scheduled ahead of time; they wait until that week before deciding which game to move to prime time. Maybe they call her up that week and get her to sing the week's teams into the phone. "Hi Carrie, we've decided on Saints-Panthers. Don't worry, we can fix it with autotune." I wish I'd seen her Sound of Music special now, I could probably do some sarcastic joke about it here.
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