Celine Dion is ready for some football.
The singer started the live broadcast of on NBC and Peacock, starring in an opening film sequence set to his 1996 hit song “It's All Coming Back to Me Now.”
The segment kicked off Sunday's game between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers, who hadn't faced each other in prime time since 1982. The game also marked the first meeting between the two teams since they faced each other in Super Bowl XXX in January 1996.
Dion begins the segment by paying homage to the game of football.
“I think my favorite thing about this game is its power to connect who we are, who we were,” he said. “To show that our most powerful 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?” Dio continues. “Sometimes, some nights, it all comes back.”
The video is interspersed with footage of the Steelers and Cowboys facing off in previous games.
“Their love story – well, maybe he doesn't love it the way I usually sing it, but still, you know, work with me here,” Dion continues, and then starts quoting her song: “I mean, 'When you touch me like that.' It kind of fits, doesn't it?”
He continues: “But truly, what a beautiful passion it produced, what a painful heartbreak it revealed so, so long ago. Like many old flames, it's always nice when they get back together. Don't you think so? Like tonight which evokes the kind of magic they once produced. the Cowboys and the Steelers, a timeless Sunday night classic.”
The video ends with her getting doused in Gatorade, as many winning trainers have been 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, at number 2, behind Los Del Rio's “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”. Dion's song remained at number 2 for five weeks.
In its announcement, NBC noted this SNF it was show no. 1 in prime time for 13 consecutive years. It averaged 24 million viewers in 24 weeks this season.
Dion's appearance in SNF The segment comes on the heels of his widely praised performance at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics. This marked his first public performance since revealing his stiff person syndrome diagnosis two years earlier. Following that revelation, he canceled all of his concert dates in 2023 and 2024.