"The first year I was in service, I was stationed in Dayton, Ohio, and of course, you could not buy gasoline during the war. But I caught the train down from Dayton to Cincinnati, changed trains and (went) down to Lexington, and saw, that was the '42 season," Brown said. "And in '43, UK, along with most of the schools in the country, did not play football because of World War II. And then in '44 they started playing again, and I was over in India and Burma, and that's halfway around the world so I couldn't come."

Brown, a UK graduate, was part of a unit known as the Burma Bridge Busters. The soldiers were responsible for destroying bridges that the Japanese could use to get supplies to their troops. Brown went on 72 missions during the war, serving with Steven Spielberg's father, and he recently got to meet Spielberg at a reunion that Brown and his wife set up for his fighter squadron. The reunion, obviously, did not conflict with a Kentucky football game.

Brown's military story has been documented on the History Channel. It involved a perilous flight on a plane experiencing engine failure.

"That day when we were flying back on one engine, I had a little talk with the Lord," Brown said. "I said, 'Lord, if you help me get back to Kentucky, I'll be smart enough not to ever leave there again."

On a wing and a prayer, Brown returned home safely. True to his word, he's been in Kentucky ever since, and he's seen everything that's happened at home Kentucky football games. This includes a National Championship season in 1950 under the legendary Bear Bryant, sealed with a Sugar Bowl victory over national powerhouse Oklahoma.

"The 1950 team was probably the best team we ever had... That Sugar Bowl Game is probably the biggest game we ever won."

Ironically, the man who never misses a game didn't attend that Sugar Bowl. Kentucky was enjoying phenomenal success under Bryant, and Brown had been to UK Bowl Games in previous years, so he decided to take a year off.

"I thought, 'We're gonna be going to Bowl Games all the time,'" he said.

The crazy part about Brown's story is that Kentucky has been, well, quite unsuccessful historically.

"Sometimes people question my sanity," Brown told us.

Well they don't question his passion. Brown was there when Charlie Bradshaw's squad in the 1960s knocked off Ole Miss in a big upset that featured a touchdown on a fake punt. He was there for Head Coach Blanton Collier, who succeeded Bryant.

"Bear produced some very outstanding teams, and then he was followed by Blanton Collier, who was probably as smart a coach as we've ever had," Brown remembers. "Then they fired him. He goes to Cleveland and wins an NFL Championship. But Blanton Collier probably had, in my opinion, as good a staff as any coach has ever had in college."

Then the 87 year old man started listing off his assistants like they were coaching the Wildcats last week.

It was a staggering staff that included Howard Schnellenberger, Bill Arnsparger, and Don Shula.

Brown also remembers a groundbreaking moment in SEC history. Kentucky was the first school in the conference with an African American player, Nat Northington.

"I think most people just felt like if they were good enough athletes, play. If they pass their grades and behave themselves and everything," Brown said. "That's what we fought World War II for."

You've got to figure that over a 68 year period, Brown would have had some type of commitment, maybe a wedding or a birthday party, that fell on a Saturday afternoon in the fall. But miraculously, he has never had to miss out on a Kentucky home football game since he was 19 years old.

"The Lord's given me good health, so I've never had to miss any because of that," he said. "I've sat out here in rain, and snow, and cold weather when I should have more sense not to."

When Brown was a working man, he was lucky enough to have a boss who loved football as much as he did.

"I was in the lumber business for a long time, and I would go to national lumber conventions that were at maybe Seattle or Toronto... Our executive officer was a pretty good football fan too. But those conventions, somehow we worked them out to where we didn't have to miss any Kentucky football games. And it worked out great."

Brown has seen superstars like Bob Gain, George Blanda, and Tim Couch. He has seen some good times, and he has seen a lot of bad times. He has witnessed games at old Stoll Field and games at Commonwealth Stadium. He's been in crowds of 10,000 people and crowds of 67,000. He remembers his first game, which he attended with his fraternity brothers.

"The opponent was probably Maryville or Oglethorpe. We used to open the season with somebody like that."

And he'll be there this weekend when the Georgia Bulldogs come to town.

Anything can happen on any given Saturday. Nobody can tell for sure what will occur when the Wildcats take the field. The only guarantee is that Jim Brown, with his wife, will be there in Section 129, row 41.

Whatever happens in Kentucky football just wouldn't be the same without the eyes of Jim Brown looking on.