Celine Dion has lengthy been the beautiful picture of pop opulence. The singer identified for her peerless vocals and warehouse stuffed with bespoke, bedazzled robes is the definition of musical class. Which is why it makes excellent sense that she helped introduce Sunday Night time Soccer’s basic NFL grudge match between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers for the groups’ first primetime showdown since 1982; and their first sport towards one another since Tremendous Bowl XXX in 1996.
To the strains of her 1996 Billboard Scorching 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 feel my favourite factor about this sport is its energy to attach who we’re, to who we had been,” she stated. “To show that our strongest reminiscences, our most enduring loves, can stick with us perpetually.”
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 stated with a mischievous grin, “You realize what I’m speaking about, proper? Generally, some nights, all of it simply comes again.”
Cue throwback footage of previous basic 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 — effectively, possibly not love the best way I normally sing about it, however nonetheless, you recognize, work with me right here.” Dion then quoted a couple of lyrics from her energy ballad — ‘Once you contact me like this. Once you maintain me like that’ — over NFL Movies footage of giant hits and testy exchanges,” including comically, “It type of matches, no?”
Flashing ahead to newer occasions, Dion added, “However actually what stunning 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 suppose? Like tonight evoking the type of magic they as soon as produced. the Cowboys and the Steelers, a timeless basic on Sunday evening.”
Her arms resolutely crossed, Dion obtained viewers prepared for the sport by invoking the majesty of Sunday Night time 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 he or she obtained completely doused with a double Gatorade bathe on the finish that left her pumping her fists in pleasure.
Dion has lately begun to come back out of the shadows after a couple of years off the radar throughout her battle with Stiff-Individual 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 time when she carried out on the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
Watch Dion’s SNF kickoff video beneath.
