Washington Commanders defensive tackle Jonathan Allen apologized for a since-deleted tweet in which he said Adolf Hitler was one of three people living or dead with whom he’d like to have dinner.
Allen, Washington’s nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award for the second consecutive year, had told his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers early Wednesday morning to “Ask me anything.” One of them asked which three people, dead or alive, would he want to have at the dinner table. Allen responded by saying his “granddad, hitler and michael jackson.”
When asked to explain Hitler, he said in a tweet also since deleted, “He’s a military genius and I love military tactics but honestly I would want to pick his brain as to why he did what he did. I’m also assuming that the people I’ve chosen have to answer all my questions honestly.”
Later in the day, Allen tweeted: “Early I…
