Deadeye Dogfight

The Deadeye Dogs shoot down DaBlitz, 57-24

KENTUCK, AL - When you wear a three-piece suit and wing tips to a football game, you mean business. Decked out in his dress blues and sitting in high command at Bryant-Denny Stadium this weekend, General Mark K. Burr, orchestrated his fighter aces, The Deadeye Dogs, in an aerial assault of Druid City's vaunted Blitzkrieg. This devastating dogfight high above the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport, near the legendary Kentuck Park, was witnessed by thousands who were in town for some reason, or another. Dogfighting first appeared during World War I, shortly after the invention of the airplane. The term "dogfight" has been used for centuries to describe a melee; a fierce, fast-paced battle between two or more opponents. The first written reference to the modern day usage of the term comes from Fly Papers, by A.E. Illingworth in 1919, “The battle develops into a ‘dogfight’, small groups of machines engaging each other in a fight to the death.” The term fighter ace(s) generally applies to any pilot(s) who eliminates five opponent craft in the air (or, in Germany during World War I, ten aircraft), although not necessarily in a dogfight. "Deadeye" is slang for an expert marksman.