Celine Dion has lengthy been the beautiful picture of pop opulence. The singer identified for her peerless vocals and warehouse filled with bespoke, bedazzled robes is the definition of musical magnificence. Which is why it makes good sense that she helped introduce Sunday Evening Soccer’s traditional NFL grudge match between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers for the groups’ first primetime showdown since 1982; and their first recreation towards one another since Tremendous Bowl XXX in 1996.
To the strains of her 1996 Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 2 hit “It’s All Coming Again to Me Now,” Dion waxed poetic about her love for the sport because the digital camera panned previous a bouquet of roses atop a grand piano. “I believe my favourite factor about this recreation is its energy to attach who we’re, to who we had been,” she mentioned. “To show that our strongest recollections, our most enduring loves, can stick with us endlessly.”
Strolling into the recording studio in an uncharacteristically dressed-down look accented by Chuck Taylor excessive tops and a gray sweatshirt commemorating the 1996 Tremendous Bowl, Dion smiled on the digital camera and mentioned with a mischievous grin, “You already know what I’m speaking about, proper? Generally, some nights, all of it simply comes again.”
Cue throwback footage of previous traditional Steelers/Cowboys match-ups that includes such stars of yore as Cowboys QB Roger Staubach and Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw, whereas Dion waxed rhapsodic over “their love affair — properly, possibly not love the way in which I normally sing about it, however nonetheless, you realize, work with me right here.” Dion then quoted just a few lyrics from her energy ballad — ‘While you contact me like this. While you maintain me like that’ — over NFL Movies footage of big hits and testy exchanges,” including comically, “It type of matches, no?”
Flashing ahead to more moderen occasions, Dion added, “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 after they’re again collectively. Don’t you assume? Like tonight evoking the type of magic they as soon as produced. the Cowboys and the Steelers, a timeless traditional on Sunday night time.”
Her arms resolutely crossed, Dion bought viewers prepared for the sport by invoking the majesty of Sunday Evening Soccer amid a slow-motion montage of the groups’ coaches getting celebratory Gatorade baths because the strains of her ballad rose to a crescendo. Oh, and she or he bought completely doused with a double Gatorade bathe on the finish that left her pumping her fists in pleasure.
Dion has not too long ago begun to come back out of the shadows after just a few years off the radar throughout her battle with Stiff-Particular person Syndrome — chronicled on this yr’s I Am: Celine Dion documentary — which resulted in her cancelling all of her 2023 and 2024 tour dates. She eased again into the highlight this summer season when she carried out on the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer season Olympics.
Watch Dion’s SNF kickoff video under.
