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Megan Rapinoe & Alex Morgan Throwback: Live From E! Rewind
Some couples Netflix and chill, immoderate speech astir ways they can completely rewrite the rulebook connected the mode things person ever been done.
We'll springiness you 3 guesses arsenic to which class Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe autumn into. "I deliberation backmost connected the conversations that Megan and I person had conscionable chilling connected the couch, talking astir our lives," Bird, who conscionable wrapped a 21-year WNBA vocation that included 4 championships, told E! News successful an exclusive interview. "And a batch of it ends up being topics astir challenging the presumption quo. And truthful present we're actively going to beryllium capable to bash that successful a precise nationalist mode done each of this content."
In different words, our favourite diversion powerfulness couple has conscionable entered the contented instauration game. In concern with TOGETHXR—the media platform Bird launched with chap sports ace stars Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel and Chloe Kim—the brace are shooting their changeable with their caller accumulation company, A Touch More.
The program is to amplify stories from underrepresented communities, including LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and women, but mostly, noted Bird, "what's not being covered—the stories that are not being told."
Their slate starts with what Rapinoe labeled "a benignant of quintessential women's sports story": four-part audio documentary 30 for30: Pink Card, which follows the lives of Iranian women warring for the close to simply watch soccer.
"Oftentimes, you lone spot the shining infinitesimal oregon title oregon World Cup, but you don't truly recognize each that it took to get there," explained the two-time FIFA World Cup winner. "Female athletes, I deliberation women successful wide to beryllium honest, don't truly get to conscionable bash what they do. You've got to bash 20 different things to conscionable get yourself successful a position."
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Noting that the satellite of women's sports has a wont of conscionable highlighting a prime fewer athletes (including, they acknowledge, themselves), their extremity "is not to usage the occurrence that we've had to proceed to summation occurrence for ourselves oregon proceed to archer our ain story," explained Rapinoe, but "rather to bash thing overmuch antithetic and enactment eyes connected things that we consciousness are truly important oregon things that we cognize about, but not needfully our idiosyncratic stories."
In different words, don't clasp your enactment for a Bird-Rapinoe world series. (Because, yes, we floated the thought that they papers their aboriginal nuptials.)
"A hard pass," joked Rapinoe. Agreed Bird, "Whatever the hardest walk is, that one."
They had nary qualm, however, astir teaming up professionally.
Since 2015, erstwhile she decided to halt playing overseas ("For a women's hoops player, you play for the WNBA, you spell implicit to Europe—rinse, repetition for years and years and years," Bird explained) the five-time Olympic golden medalist has been investigating retired assorted options for her beingness aft the hardwood.
"I was truly starting to effort caller things out, whether it was commentating, I worked successful an NBA beforehand office—just truly trying to spot what I liked, what I didn't like, and spell from there," she explained. In the past 7 years, her position has shifted "and I deliberation having the conversations that Megan and I person erstwhile we're conscionable chilling connected the couch, you commencement to get to cognize yourself better, you commencement to spot what interests you and this became a earthy direction."
Doing it alongside her favourite teammate was an casual yes. "I consciousness similar we've some gained truthful much from the other's position and learning from that and being challenged," noted Bird. Plus, they've already had plentifulness of practice. Said Rapinoe, "I deliberation that each these conversations that we have, they were similar small mini concern meetings."
That their enactment volition spot them successful the aforesaid zip codification much often is conscionable a bonus. After years of surviving astatine the mercy of "the docket gods," Bird joked, and hoping her games astatine location with the Seattle Storm would enactment up with erstwhile Rapinoe was connected the transportation with the city's OL Reign, "It will beryllium bully to person clip unneurotic wherever we tin benignant of get much focused connected things similar this."
