Jennifer Allen

Jennifer Allen is an American author and commentator, and the daughter of football coach George Allen.

Jennifer Allen grew up the only daughter of a professional football coach (George Allen) who was known for total commitment to his team and sport.

She has three brothers. George is a former Republican United States Senator and former governor of Virginia. Bruce is currently the President of the Washington Redskins, and the former general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Greg is a clinical psychologist.

Jennifer's mother came from French Tunisia and was of a Jewish background, which would become an issue in her brother's 2006 senatorial re-election campaign in Virginia.

Jennifer is the author of two books, a collection of short stories, Better Get Your Angel On and a memoir, Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, describing her childhood as a coach’s daughter and also documenting the closeness her family had with the members of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins that her father coached.

Pat Conroy called Fifth Quarter “the Best book about football I’ve ever read – and Jennifer Allen never played a down in her life.” In The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley reviewed the book, noting that in writing about her father, she “illuminates his innermost soul and gives us not just a football coach but a human being.”

The memoir contains claims that George held her by her feet over Niagara Falls, struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue, threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door, tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone, and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist...George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession– getting paid to make people suffer." She also wrote about the closeness that her family had with the members of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins that her father coached.

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