Football has been Jim Caldwell's life. He'd spent 41 consecutive years on a field of some sort, coaching younger men on the game he loves.
He's had to step away this year, at the age of 63, now out of a job. But this weekend, he'll be back around the game again.
Caldwell will be an honorary captain for Iowa's home game against Maryland. Iowa is his alma mater, where he played football from 1973-1976. It's also where he started his 41-year stretch of coaching the game as a graduate assistant in 1977.
Caldwell still owns the school record for blocked field goals in a season when he got to five as a freshman in 1973, according to a press release from the university.