THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Longtime football official Roger Stewart is getting noticed — and for all the right reasons
Courtesy photo Roger and Patty Stewart at a Montana State game in Bozeman, Mont.
Courtesy photo Roger Stewart with grandchildren Gabe, left, and Ellie before working an Idaho Vandals football game at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow.
Courtesy photo Roger Stewart working Arena Bowl 2016, Arizona vs. Philadelphia.
Courtesy photo "Fans watch the ball," says official Roger Stewart, here watching the action among the linemen during a Montana football game in Missoula.
A much-younger Roger Stewart described himself as “highly competitive” and “always running my mouth” when he was playing and coaching as part of the local sports scene shortly after arriving in Coeur d’Alene in 1979.
One day a veteran official, Dan Malcolm, pulled Stewart aside and suggested he become a referee.
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