Mike Boryla spent 40 years forgetting all about football. Now the 67-year-old former Regis High School star, Philadelphia Eagle and all-pro quarterback talks about it all the time in stark, venomous terms.
“It’s a psychopathic blood sport,” Boryla said recently while sitting in a Castle Rock coffeehouse, where he spends most of his days writing plays. Boryla’s ire toward the game, along with his spirituality, suddenly fired a need to write after a long career in the corporate world.
Nearing age 60, he started penning stories and screenplays, including a one-man show called “The Disappearing Quarterback” that he performed in 2014 in Philadelphia and for a short time in Denver.