RARE BREED

BRIAN BOSWORTH AND STEVE “STING” BORDEN TEAM UP IN THE ACTION-PACKED REVELATION ROAD—OUT NOW. WE CAUGHT UP WITH THE MEN WHO PERSONIFY ’80S BADASS.

BRIAN BOSWORTH
M&F: What made you want to  do this film, Revelation Road? BB: After reading the script and putting it  down and reflecting on who the character  (biker gang leader Hawg) was, I realised Hawg was me. He was full of vengefulness and  hatred. He had his heart set against humanity. He had a grudge against God…When everything kind of fell apart, I got really angry and blamed Him for everything that was going wrong in  my life. Speaking to that, does it bother you that you’re often called a bust? Usually the people who are saying, “He’s a bust,” are people who have their own agenda. They either didn’t like me or had a preconceived notion of who I was. They didn’t like “the Boz”. I would be surprised if any of those guys have any knowledge of what a bust truly is. If you go back and chronologically look at the career that I had, albeit short, I came in late, came in at a different position than I had played in college, played two games, then went on strike for four weeks, came back, played another seven or eight games, and was defensive player of the game on a couple of different occasions. And under intense scrutiny and intense pressure, on a very old football team, I still made the playoffs for the first time in seven years, was second on the team in tackles, and dislocated my shoulder against the Houston Oilers and continued to play anyway…Are you going to define me as a bust based on the fact that I broke my shoulder? Bo Jackson is another great example of that.