Tim McGraw photo by Danny Clinch, courtesy of Curb Records.

If football is on at the Tim McGraw/Faith Hill household, don’t even think about changing the channel. Tim is a lifelong football fan. He performed on Sep. 10 during the NFL’s Kickoff Party before the first regular season game at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, when the Tennessee Titans played the hometown Steelers. Faith’s NFL ties are strong too – she sings the opening theme for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, ”Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.”

When Tim recently visited the GAC studio, he answered a few questions from fans. Julie from Idaho wanted to know what advice Tim would give to football-hating wives married to football-loving husbands.

“Learn to love it — at my house, it’s the only choice you’d have!” he said, laughing.  “I’m a football fanatic – but my wife is also, so that’s great. Faith has always been a football fan. But what she really enjoys –and I think it makes her love the game even more – [are] the pre-game stories when they do spotlights on particular players, where you learn a little bit about them as a person, and their life or how they grew up. So maybe checking some of that stuff out might make you more interested in the game.”

Click here to see the rest of our Fan Q&A with Tim and find out which qualities his mom gave him, who his dream duet partner is (other than Faith, of course), which artists he’s listening to — and much more!

In other Tim news, recently he hinted that, in addition to his upcoming movie, “The Blind Side,” with Sandra Bullock, he’d soon be shooting another film in January with an Oscar-winning actress he could not yet name. But now Music Row magazine is reporting the actress is Gwyneth Paltrow. The magazine says directors are considering shooting some scenes on Tim’s farm, south of Nashville. The soundtrack will feature all Nashville-based artists, though specific artists aren’t known at this time.

“The Blind Side” will be in theaters Nov. 20.