Celine Dion appears in the Sunday Night Football opening video

Celine Dion is ready for some football.

The singer opened the live broadcast of on NBC and Peacock, starring in a filmed opening sequence to her 1996 hit song “It's All Coming Back to Me Now.”

The segment began Sunday with the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers, who haven't played each other in prime time since 1982. The game also marked the teams' first meeting since they faced each other in Super Bowl XXX in January 1996.

Dion begins the segment with an homage to the game of football.

“I think what I like most about this game is its ability to connect with who we are and who we were,” she said. “To prove that our strongest memories, our most enduring loves, can stay with us forever.”

The camera then shows her wearing a Super Bowl XXX sweatshirt with both teams' logos and helmets. The Cowboys and Steelers have played in three Super Bowls – more than any other Super Bowl matchup.

“You know what I'm talking about, right?” Dion continues. “Sometimes, some nights, it all just comes back.”

The video is interspersed with footage of the Steelers and Cowboys playing against each other in previous games.

“Your love affair — well, maybe not as much as I usually sing about it, but still, you know, working with me here,” Dion continues, then begins to quote from her song: “I mean, ‘If you touch me.'” something like that. If you hold me like this.' It’s kind of fitting, isn’t it?”

She continues: “But really, what a beautiful passion it has provoked, what a painful heartache it revealed so long ago.” Like so many old flames, it always feels right when they are together again. Don't you think so? Just as tonight evokes the kind of magic they once created. the Cowboys and the Steelers, a timeless Sunday night classic.”

The video ends with her being doused with Gatorade, as many a winning trainer has done over the decades.

Watch the video below.

“It's All Coming Back to Me Now” peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 26, 1996, reaching No. 2, behind Los Del Rio's “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”. Dion's song stayed at No. 2 for five weeks.

NBC pointed this out in its announcement SNF has been the number one show in prime time for 13 years in a row. This season averages 24 million viewers over 24 weeks.

Dion's appearance in the SNF The segment follows her widely praised performance at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, which was her first public appearance since she announced her diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome two years earlier. After this revelation, she canceled all of her concert dates for 2023 and 2024.