Jennifer Allen is an American author and commentator. She has appeared on the NFL Network and written for the NFL website. In January 2006, Jennifer appeared on the NFL Network to discuss how the firing of a head coach affects the coach’s family, basing her commentary on her own experiences when her father was fired.
She would later narrate the “Fearsome Foursome (American football)” episode of A Football Life. Jennifer has contributed articles to Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and The New Republic.
Jennifer has also written about her experience with yoga in Mantra magazine. She has been teaching yoga in Los Angeles since 2003, focusing specifically on athletes. In 2014, she taught yoga to the #1 NCAA ranked USC Women’s Tennis Team, and has also worked with soccer, lacrosse, baseball, football, and volleyball teams.
She lives with her husband Mark Richard in Los Angeles and has three sons. In the Fearsome Foursome documentary she states her first son, Roman, was named after “my first crush,” Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel, and her second son was named after Deacon Jones.
