The Hocking River runs into the Ohio River, the Ohio into the Mississippi, and near the wide ending of the Mississippi that empties out into the the vast Gulf of Mexico exists the passionate fans of LSU. Thankfully, Burrows floated past Athens long enough to put Athens High School on the map (Though a lot of sports columns keep calling it "The Plains" High School). This whole thing seems like the beginning of a Herculean Myth of Epic proportions. It seems as though the father in such myths, at least metaphorically, gets slain. Thankfully, Joe didn't go to Cincinnati or we might be talking about a Freudian Myth in the making. Ouch!!
Where the Ohio and Mississippi meet in Cario, Ill, the Ohio is the bigger river in terms of volume. According to standard geographical naming protocols the river south of there should have been the Ohio. The river up to that point would likely have been called the Minnesota, since that's where it originates. So Burrow can go to LSU, but he can't get away from the influence of the waters of the Ohio. ;-)
Here's a brief quote from Wikipedia about the size of the two rivers: "The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s);[2] Mississippi at Thebes: 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m3/s)[3]) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system."