Celine Dion is prepared for some soccer.
The singer kicked off the dwell broadcast of on NBC and Peacock, starring in a filmed opening sequence set to her 1996 hit track “It’s All Coming Again to Me Now.”
The section kicked off Sunday’s recreation between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers, which haven’t confronted off towards one another in primetime since 1982. The sport additionally marked the groups’ first matchup since they performed one another in Tremendous Bowl XXX in January 1996.
Dion begins the section by paying tribute to the sport of soccer.
“I believe my favourite factor about this recreation is its energy to attach who we’re, to who we have been,” she stated. “To show that our strongest reminiscences, our most enduring loves, can stick with us without end.”
The digital camera then reveals her sporting a sweatshirt from Tremendous Bowl XXX with each groups logos and helmets. The Cowboys and Steelers have performed in three Tremendous Bowls — greater than every other Tremendous Bowl matchup.
“You already know what I’m speaking about, proper?” Dion continues. “Typically, some nights, all of it simply comes again.”
The video is interspersed with footage of the Steelers and Cowboys taking part in one another in earlier video games.
“Their love affair — properly, perhaps not love the best way I often sing about it, however nonetheless, you realize, work with me right here,” Dion continues, after which begins quoting from her track: “I imply, ‘Whenever you contact me like this. Whenever you maintain me like that.’ It form of suits, no?”
She goes on: “However actually what lovely ardour it produced, what painful heartbreak it revealed so, so way back. Like so many elderly flames it all the time feels proper once they’re again collectively. Don’t you suppose? Like tonight evoking the form of magic they as soon as produced. the Cowboys and the Steelers, a timeless basic on Sunday evening.”
The video ends together with her getting doused in Gatorade, as many a game-winning coach has been over the many years.
Watch the video under.
“It’s All Coming Again to Me Now” peaked on the Billboard Sizzling 100 on Oct. 26, 1996, at No. 2, behind Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Combine).” Dion’s track stayed at No. 2 for 5 weeks.
In its announcement, NBC famous that SNF has been the No. 1 present in primetime for 13 consecutive years. It’s averaging 24 million viewers by means of 24 weeks this season.
Dion’s look within the SNF section comes on the heels of her broadly praised efficiency on the Opening Ceremony on the 2024 Summer season Olympics. That marked her first public efficiency since revealing her Stiff-Particular person Syndrome analysis two years earlier. Following that revelation, she canceled all of her 2023 and 2024 live performance dates.
