I've Been Waiting All Day for Sunday Night!

Bianca Long

“All right Sunday Night where are you? Just kickin’ back from the things that you do. You want the big game we want it too.” Sound familiar? Those are the catchy song lyrics that you hear country superstar Carrie Underwood sing every Sunday night right before the kickoff on NBC.

The weekends are filled with football. High school football games take place underneath the Friday night lights; College football is on all day Saturday, followed by a Sunday where NFL players jump over defenders and compete for a spot on Sports Center’s Top Ten Plays. All of these games are leading up to the highest rated and most watched TV program: Sunday Night Football.

Sunday Night Football, SNF, is more than just the big plays, the records, the cool player introductions, the commentators, and the trash talk; it is a lifestyle. SNF is something that brings about 20 million viewers in front of their television sets at 8:15 p.m. to tune in and watch the world’s biggest stars compete.

Occasionally, one team runs up the score, and the game gets boring. So we turn it off, go to sleep, and prepare ourselves for the upcoming week. However, most of the games leave fans all across the country on the edge of their seats until the clock strikes 00:00 in the 4^th quarter (or if we’re lucky, we’ll get free football in overtime).

Once the game, the highlights, and the post-game interviews are over, it is well past midnight, and many of us dread the early morning responsibilities that we have to attend to. But as a football fan, you don’t care how late you stayed up the night before or how tired you’ll be the next morning. You know you’ll do the same thing next week, and any good game on Sunday night is well worth it. It is what you waited all day for, and you can’t wait to tune in next week and watch Sunday Night Football, America’s favorite pastime.