South Pittsburg @ Sequatchie County

[piratetom]

2 hours ago, TheAmbassador said:

What do you mean? You boys do a good job. I have to listen when I can’t make the games. I plan on coming Friday, but if it’s projected to be storming at gametime I won’t make it. 

Rain or shine I will be there. I got you covered Bass.

[MrLegit]

If it rains bad SC stays in the game if it is only damp they don't. 

[SCPRIDE30]

17 minutes ago, MrLegit said:

If it rains bad SC stays in the game if it is only damp they don't. 

What makes you so sure of that? Because we are slow?? Idk why everyone thinks it’ll be a blow out. I guess cause we played like crap in the jamboree. 

[pegleg]

11 hours ago, The Drunken Sailor said:

I remember for a long stretch of time it seemed like it rained every time we played Sequatchie County.  The running joke became that Sequatchie was an old Cherokee word for rain.  

Seriously, Sequatchie means Hog Trough. “Hog Trough Valley “ 

[TheAmbassador]

1 hour ago, SCPRIDE30 said:

What makes you so sure of that? Because we are slow?? Idk why everyone thinks it’ll be a blow out. I guess cause we played like crap in the jamboree. 

I haven’t seen any SP guys saying it will be a blowout. I personally think it will be a good football game. It’s a huge challenge for this SP team to start the year vs this team. 

[Southtowner]

1 hour ago, pegleg said:

Seriously, Sequatchie means Hog Trough. “Hog Trough Valley “ 

Some say it was already called Sequatchie before DeSoto brought over the first hogs? 

[Southtowner]

Just now, Southtowner said:

Some say it was already called Sequatchie before DeSoto brought over the first hogs? 

Of course I wasn't around back then. 

[Southtowner]

18 minutes ago, TheAmbassador said:

I haven’t seen any SP guys saying it will be a blowout. I personally think it will be a good football game. It’s a huge challenge for this SP team to start the year vs this team. 

Should be a good game. I got my rain suit & umbrella neatly packed. 

[StewieG73]

2 hours ago, SCPRIDE30 said:

What makes you so sure of that? Because we are slow?? Idk why everyone thinks it’ll be a blow out. I guess cause we played like crap in the jamboree. 

I think it will be a good game unless they are told to hold back again. They might be saving themselves for Upperman. 

[The Drunken Sailor]

13 minutes ago, Southtowner said:

Some say it was already called Sequatchie before DeSoto brought over the first hogs? 

From the poster named Sequatchie circa 2008 - 

"According to the book Sequatchie: A Story of the Southern Cumberlands by. J. Leonard Raulston and James W. Livingood, pub. 1974. Believes the name "Sequatchie" comes from the Cherokee word Su-quah meaning "hog trough" for which the valley resembles.

It also says the diffrent spellings come from the U.S. Cherokee Indian Agent Meigs in dispatches etc.. as he spelled it as Sequechee, Sequchee, Sequatchie, Sequichee and Sequeechee at one time or another in his journal or dispatches.

 

In the book Sequatchie County: A story of a place and its people by Henry R. Camp pub. 1984 and repub. in 1997. Says Most people of the county have been taught that the word Sequachee (one of the original spellings) meant "hog trough" in regards again to the valley appearance. Because it is believed that the Cherokee and Creek was using some form of the name prior to the De Soto expedition entered the valley which brought the first hogs the Indians had ever seen, so in his book it is said the word Sequachee probably means (Opossum, he grins or runs)

 

Both books refer to Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs the US Agent to the Cherokee in one of Meig's Journal from 1802 an entry shows he paid $5.00 to "Seqeechee, a Cherokee chief.

 

So the word probably comes from the Cherokee chief but the meaning of the word is really unknown.

 

"Sequatchie" is the proper spelling today as thats how the Valley, the county and the River are spelled. The only thing I know that really uses the spelling Sequachee today is the Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative"

[oneyewilly]

I think it will be a close ball game regardless of the weather but rain defiantly plays in Seq favor. This has been a good ball game the last several years and I don't expect anything less this year. 

[oneyewilly]

9 minutes ago, The Drunken Sailor said:

From the poster named Sequatchie circa 2008 - 

"According to the book Sequatchie: A Story of the Southern Cumberlands by. J. Leonard Raulston and James W. Livingood, pub. 1974. Believes the name "Sequatchie" comes from the Cherokee word Su-quah meaning "hog trough" for which the valley resembles.

It also says the diffrent spellings come from the U.S. Cherokee Indian Agent Meigs in dispatches etc.. as he spelled it as Sequechee, Sequchee, Sequatchie, Sequichee and Sequeechee at one time or another in his journal or dispatches.

 

In the book Sequatchie County: A story of a place and its people by Henry R. Camp pub. 1984 and repub. in 1997. Says Most people of the county have been taught that the word Sequachee (one of the original spellings) meant "hog trough" in regards again to the valley appearance. Because it is believed that the Cherokee and Creek was using some form of the name prior to the De Soto expedition entered the valley which brought the first hogs the Indians had ever seen, so in his book it is said the word Sequachee probably means (Opossum, he grins or runs)

 

Both books refer to Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs the US Agent to the Cherokee in one of Meig's Journal from 1802 an entry shows he paid $5.00 to "Seqeechee, a Cherokee chief.

 

So the word probably comes from the Cherokee chief but the meaning of the word is really unknown.

 

"Sequatchie" is the proper spelling today as thats how the Valley, the county and the River are spelled. The only thing I know that really uses the spelling Sequachee today is the Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative"

Thanks for the info!   I know one thing if it rains like they are saying the field will look like a hog pen lol

Edited August 16, 2018 by oneyewilly