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Saturday’s Wolfpack home game will be the first one he’s missed in 52 years

As fans file into Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday for the Wolfpack’s regular season finale against UNC-Chapel Hill, many who sit in Section 30 will notice the absense of a man who has always been there over the years to welcome them to the game.

James Allen Brenner, or Jim as most people know him, was a Kentucky Colonel and a member of Mensa, served as a king in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans and had a 25-year career with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that took him around the country.

But thousands of N.