Sports announcer calls Megan Rapinoe 'predator' who 'recruited' Sue Bird to be lesbian
Former ESPN announcer Dan Dakich claims the soccer legend 'recruited' the hoops icon as a 'predator.' Because he would know, right?
Even though her almost six-year engagement was watched closely by millions, and followed a four-year courtship that made her part of the most prominent lesbian power couple on the planet, Sue Bird was — in the eyes of one heterosexual dude with an online platform — "recruited" by Megan Rapinoe to be a lesbian. So sayeth former ESPN announcer Dick Dakich, who is now the subject of viral backlash for his homophobic comments in the wake of Bird and Rapinoe announcing their breakup. "Told you for years Sue Bird is not a lifetime lesbian.
She got recruited (as so many poor college athletes do) into that life," he wrote in a post on X Friday to his 173K followers. And that same day, he recorded a video to clarify that this was something he had predicted, and that, because he is married to a woman who played softball and who agrees with him, he cannot be a misogynist. But Dakich didn't stop there.
On a podcast that the former basketball coach and player hosts on the right-wing sports site owned by Fox News, Outkick, he called the former World Cup winner and Team USA Olympic gold medalist a "predator" who groomed Bird, now managing director for the USA Basketball Women's National Team. "Knowing that Sue Bird would eventually dump Megan Rapinoe, well, that was very, very easy," Dakich boasted. "First, Megan Rapinoe...
is a predator, and Sue Bird, I told you forever was not a lifetime lesbian. Maybe I am wrong, but I knew that was never gonna last because Rapinoe is a predator. " As of press time, neither Bird nor Rapinoe has responded and did not reply to Out's request for comment.