I was all in favor of Megan Rapinoe’s push for equal pay in women’s soccer, and I’m all for her advocacy for LGBT+ athletes.

But this?

This is just plain idiotic. Rapinoe seems to have deluded herself into thinking Dwayne Johnson stole her partner’s concept for the redesigned XFL logo. But the only thing that’s the same about the two is that the X doesn’t meet in the middle: There’s a space between the left and right halves. That’s it. Other than that:

• The XFL’s “X” is thin, while the “X” representing Sue Bird’s group, Togethxr, is thick.

• There’s an indentation on both sides of the Togethxr “X” that isn’t present in the XFL logo.

• The Togethxr logo has rounded corners, while the XFL logo is straight-edge all the way.

• The Togethxr logo is a single letter; the XFL logo is three letters.

• One side of the Togethxr (how do you pronounce that?) logo is solid white, while the other side is hollow black with a white outline.

• Perhaps most importantly, the two logos don’t even employ the same font.

The sans-serif lettering on the NBA and Major League Baseball logos have far more in common. The same with the all-caps italicized lettering on the NCAA and NHL logos.

If anything, the XFL logo looks like a virtual carbon copy of a soccer video game: Only the first letter in the two logos is appreciably different.

Yet it was Rapinoe who had lawyers fire off a cease-and-desist letter to Johnson and the XFL.

Does she have a chance in hell of prevailing in court? Not if the judge has a decent pair of eyes and more than a few working brain cells.

NBC Sports writer Mike Florio pointed out that “matters of this nature can also become an effective mechanism for free publicity... For example, many who will become aware of this dispute likely never heard of Togethxr.”

If that’s the motive, it’s pretty cynical. But we live in cynical times, and I’m cynical as hell about the contention that these logos are anything alike.

After all, I have a decent pair of eyes and more than a few working brain cells of my own. In this case, it’s Rapinoe who ought to cease and desist.

Stephen H. Provost is the author of A Whole Different League, exploring the history of rebel pro sports leagues, and some 40 other books, all available on Amazon.