George Allen (জর্জ অ্যালেন) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach for two teams in the National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Rams from 1966 to 1970 and the Washington Redskins from 1971 to 1977. Allen led his teams to winning records in all 12 of his seasons as an NFL head coach, compiling an overall regular-season record of 116–47–5. Seven of his teams qualified for the NFL playoffs, including the 1972 Washington Redskins, who reached Super Bowl VII, losing to Don Shula's Miami Dolphins. Allen made a brief return as head coach of the Rams in 1978, but was fired before the regular season commenced.

Allen attended Alma College and Marquette University and received an M.S. from the University of Michigan (1947). After coaching teams at Morningside College (Iowa) and Whittier College (California), he entered the National Football League as offensive-end coach with the Los Angeles Rams (1957). As an assistant coach of the Chicago Bears (1958–66) he coached the team’s defensive unit in its 1963 league championship season. As head coach of the Los Angeles Rams from 1966 to 1970, he traded promising young talent to acquire experienced players, won two Western Division championships, and had the best win-loss-tie record (49–17–4) in the league for that period. His years of coaching the Washington Redskins (1971–77) were perhaps even more remarkable, for they included three consecutive Eastern Division championships, again after building his team around veteran players.

In addition to his coaching feats, Allen had an idiosyncratic and controversial personality. His life revolved around football 24-7. One of his quirks was to minimize chewing time by consuming soft foods, giving himself more time to prepare for games and study opponents. He lived and breathed football; he compared losing to death. Allen had contentious relationships with the owners of the two NFL teams for which he was the head coach, the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams. Richman explores why he was fired by those teams and whether he was blackballed from coaching again in the NFL.