Underwood brings new 'Sunday Night Football' theme

Carrie Underwood has taken the handoff from Faith Hill to perform the musical introduction for NBC's "Sunday Night Football,'' but don't expect the two country superstars to sing it the same way.

Hill performed the song for the last five seasons before Underwood took over this year. The singer says she wanted to put her own style on "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,'' the theme song based on Joan Jett's rock 'n' roll anthem "I Hate Myself for Loving You.'' Underwood's version debuts Sunday before the Dallas Cowboys host the New York Giants.

"We were definitely mindful - she had put her mark on it for so many years,'' Underwood said in a telephone interview. "We definitely wanted to go in and make sure we switched gears a little bit and made it sound more like me. And changed up the look and the feel just so it wasn't, you know, the same song with a different blondie up there singing it.''