The country music star and "American Idol" winner performs "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night" before the day's final NFL game ...

Carrie Underwood earns $1 million each time her theme song airs on Sunday Night Football. With the NFL season spanning 18 weeks, this totals an impressive $18 million annually for just this gig.

They'd been waiting all day for Carrie Underwood. Many days. Years, actually. When NBC executives originally asked her to sing the "Sunday Night Football" open, she declined. It was 2006 ...