Carrie Underwood songs will lead the cheers for Sunday Night Football. Carrie Underwood’s version of “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” will premiere as the SNF theme tonight right before the New York Giants' season opener when they take on the Dallas Cowboys.

Months after recording her version of the theme, country music star Carrie Underwood is finally new voice on the introduction to NBC's "Sunday Night Football."

Carrie Underwood songs will replace SFN’s old theme, “Sunday Night Football,” which was sung by Faith Hill. Carrie Underwood recorded the new "Sunday Night Football" opening for NBC in June at a recording studio in Playa Vista that was the size of an airport-hangar. The new Carrie Underwood song debuts tonight.

Pink sang “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” in 2006 and Faith Hill’s version has been playing before the games every year since then. Carrie Underwood’s rendition is said to be more energetic and set at a faster clip.

Carrie Underwood said "We all definitely wanted to make an intentional shift in the sound and the look and the feel of it. Because Faith put such a stamp on it. She made it her own. We wanted people to know it was someone else; it was me — my music, my sound, my voice, my look."

Every version of the Sunday Night Football theme has had its own story. Fred Guadelli, who produces Sunday Night Football said, "The general story is Carrie is performing in a concert stadium, and in the crowd are these living cubes. Inside these cubes are NFL stars. They're submerged in water, but then they rise out of the cubes and become themselves. It's kind of a real world combined with a surreal world."

Peyton and Eli Manning, Clay Matthews, Terrell Suggs, J.J. Watt, Andrew Luck, Calvin Johnson, Aaron Rodgers, Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski and Patrick Willis all appear in the “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night” music video.

Gaudill said with Carrie Underwood, "You knew you were getting a star,but her ability to nail things the first time is unlike anybody I've ever seen, other than maybe [play-by-play announcer] Al Michaels."

Al Michaels says the new Carrie Underwood song will also pull in new viewers who don’t regularly watch football. He said, "And maybe we can keep them around for 15 minutes or so afterward. You hope the game is half as good as the open."