As Michael mentioned about this photograph, here we are, Steven Boutrous's #1 fans. At the time Steven was a member of the Bismarck High School Demon Wrestling team and the Demon football squad.

Steven's mother Dian Marcellla (Erickson) Boutrous along with her sons Michael and Allan Boutrous were photographed in the family home in Bismarck in 1985.

Steven sent me this note recently after seeing the images I planned to post and I feel his words go well with this photograph. Steven writes:

Not sure if you know the story behind all this, but I was so dead set on winning the state championship title in wrestling that I opted out of High School football for fear of getting hurt.

Dad was so bummed because he loved football so much and wanted nothing more than to watch me play, but he ended up accepting my position. That is until my senior year when mom came up to me and mentioned how much it would mean to my dad if I played my senior year. Of course I said no, but the more I got to thinking and feeling guilty, I joined the team.

And the craziest part about it is that we won the state championship that year, something that hadn’t been done for decades. Incredible and even more incredible was three months later I won the wrestling championship and three months after that I won the Teenage Upper Midwest body building contest. So it all came around and my dad was happy and that means a lot to me.