re: Greatest Southern River FINAL FOUR - Mississippi and Tennessee in the lead

Mississippi River vs. Chattahoochee River

Arkansas River vs. Tennessee River

[Mississippi River vs. The Chattahoochee

Arkansas River vs. Tennessee River

Mississippi River



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The Chattahoochee





Arkansas River :sooners: :jayhawks: Where the river runs through Kansas they call it the AR-KANSAS river. That ought to eliminate it.




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Tennessee River :unalions: :msuracers:

You do know the Tennessee River also runs through Alabama and Kentucky fans are statewide. You need to add Auburn, Bama and UK to it.

Mississippi River
Chattahoochchee

Arkansas River
Tennessee River

When did they join the SEC?

Mississippi River leading the Chattahoochee by 13-10

Tennessee River leading the Arkansas by 17-6

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Fly fishing the headwaters of the ‘Hooch is a religious experience on an early summer morning when the mist is rising off the cold waters.

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Fly fishing the headwaters of the ‘Hooch is a religious experience on an early summer morning when the mist is rising off the cold waters.

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Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,
I hurry amain to reach the plain,
Run the rapid and leap the fall,
Split at the rock and together again,
Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,
And flee from folly on every side
With a lover's pain to attain the plain
Far from the hills of Habersham,
Far from the valleys of Hall.

All down the hills of Habersham,
All through the valleys of Hall,
The rushes cried 'Abide, abide,'
The willful waterweeds held me thrall,
The laving laurel turned my tide,
The ferns and the fondling grass said 'Stay,'
The dewberry dipped for to work delay,
And the little reeds sighed 'Abide, abide,
Here in the hills of Habersham,
Here in the valleys of Hall.'

High o'er the hills of Habersham,
Veiling the valleys of Hall,
The hickory told me manifold
Fair tales of shade, the poplar tall
Wrought me her shadowy self to hold,
The chestnut, the oak, the walnut, the pine,
Overleaning, with flickering meaning and sign,
Said, 'Pass not, so cold, these manifold
Deep shades of the hills of Habersham,
These glades in the valleys of Hall.'

And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
-- Crystals clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst --
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.

But oh, not the hills of Habersham,
And oh, not the valleys of Hall
Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
Downward the voices of Duty call --
Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main,
The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn,
And a myriad flowers mortally yearn,
And the lordly main from beyond the plain
Calls o'er the hills of Habersham,
Calls through the valleys of Hall.

Song of the Chattahoochee

Sidney Lanier

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Did any of you guys get dumped in these rivers, yourselves, lol? For religion?

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I have been dumped in the waters of the Chattahoochee from nearly its headwaters to the lake formed by damming it and the Flint River more times than I count. Never an officially religious purpose to the dumping unless you count slipping while trout fishing or duck hunting, capsizing a Jon boat while white bass fishing or being stoned while floating down the river in a tube or a raft a religious experience. Each time I was closer to god than I’ve ever been in church if that counts….