Pounding from speakers at a tailgate just outside Bryant-Denny Stadium's gates, the sound of "Sweet Home Alabama" trails off the deeper you walk into Evergreen Cemetery.
It's quiet here, even on game day.
More than 100,000 piled into this coliseum of modern college football for Alabama's home opener with Arkansas State yet its neighbor to the south sat peaceful as ever.
The juxtaposition of fall Saturday pageantry in the sport's epicenter and 13.8 acres of serenity is striking.
Almost nobody walking by even looks to this grassy field filled with tombstones dating back to the early 1800s.