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After his NFL days end, Redskins’ Jonathan Allen aims to launch video gaming career

By: Kareem Copeland July 29, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. CDT

MINNEAPOLIS — The early courtship between Jonathan and Hannah wasn’t always particularly romantic. They officially met at her first party on the University of Alabama campus, but she had seen the hulking football player around study hall. He helped her get a ride at the end of the festivities, and they ended up ordering pizza and talking late into the night.

Jonathan Allen, the future Washington Redskins standout, would invite her over to his dorm after dinner at Bryant Dining Hall — she was a rower, and their schedules often included a late meal. It took a while before Hannah knew he was the one because of a peculiar recurring dynamic: She would come over, and he would play video games while she watched.

“I’m like, ‘What the heck?’ ” Hannah said earlier this summer over lunch in Reston, Va. “He’d be like, ‘I need just one hour of game time.’ And I would just fall asleep because I have to get up at 4:30. He still says that: ‘Just one hour of game time.