 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.