Yeah, I turned 30 today.

I got Castle Season 1 today.

Not much to talk about lately.

So many superpowers, so you can't really choose just one......

I'd pick Wolverine's(Claire's) healing factor, wouldn't really have to worry about getting sick as well as quickly healing from injuries that'd take months to heal from.

Honorable mention: Telekinesis, Time Travel, Teleportation, Mind Reading

The Saints avoided the first trap, edging out the St. Louis Rams 28-23 today to improve 9-0, continuing to add to their best start ever.

Drew Brees threw for 223 yards, 2 TDs, and 2 INTs. Reggie Bush scored 2 TDs, running for 1 and one receiving TD, and ran for 83 yards, including a 55-yd run(a career-long for Bush).

The Saints D didn't have most of their starting secondary(Darren Sharper and Jabari Greer didn't play due to injury and they lost Tracy Porter to a knee injury in the game), and it showed somewhat.

The Saints go to Tampa next Sunday to play the 1-8 Buccaneers(who lost to Miami 25-23 on a field goal with :10 left).

The LSU Tigers, without key starting players(Jordan Jefferson sat out with an ankle injury; Charles Scott is out until at least whenever their bowl game ends up being with a broken collarbone), held off a Louisiana Tech also struggling with injuries 24-16 at Tiger Stadium just now.

At least Jarrett Lee didn't throw a pick six this time(though he came close twice), while Keiland Williams ran for 116 yards and 2 TD's, both in the 2nd half.

Louisiana Tech actually scored their most points ever against the Tigers and led 13-10 at halftime(their first lead since their last win in the series......in 1904!).

LSU improves to 8-2 and goes on the road next week to play a dangerous Ole Miss team coming off an impressive 42-17 win over Tennessee.

The 2009 New Orleans Saints have done something no other Saints team has done before: start the season with 8 straight wins. The Saints got their 8-0 start by defeating a tough Carolina Panthers team 30-20 in the Superdome today, rallying from down 14-0 after the 1st quarter and 17-6 at halftime.

After the first half, the Saints quickly pulled within 17-13 on a 10 yd TD run by Pierre Thomas(13 carries, 50 yards), helped out by a 63 yd catch by Devery Henderson. Then after Carolina settled for a field goal after a long drive was stalled by the Saints defense(Carolina had 1st & goal at the 1, but the Panthers botched a handoff that resulted in a sack of Jake Delhomme at the 7, then was follewed by a 1 yd run and an incomplete pass), Drew Brees threw a 54-yard TD pass to Robert Meachem to tie it at 20 at the end of the 3rd quarter. The Saints then scored a field goal at the end of a long drive to take their first lead at 23-20. After the Saints stopped Carolina on a fourth down at the Saint 43(Anthony Hargrove sacked Delhomme, forced a fumble, and recovered it at the Saint 48) then downing a punt at the Panthers' 1 yard line after a 3 and out, Hargrove recovered a DeAngelo Williams fumble at the 1 and scored the game-sealing touchdown.

Drew Brees finished with 330 yards passing, 1 TD, and 1 INT on 24 of 35 attempts.

The Saints defense forced 4 fumbles, recovering 3 fumbles, though they didn't get an interception in a game for the first time today.

The Saints beat the Panthers in New Orleans and Louisiana for the first time since 2001.

The Saints have a potential trap game next Sunday at the St. Louis Rams(1-7, bye week this week coming off a 17-10 win at Detroit last week) as they try to clinch the fastest winning season in franchise history.

LSU lost 24-15 to Alabama earlier today, but regardless of how good the Crimson Tide is(much better than the overrated pieces of trash Floriduh Gators and especially their overrated quarterback Tim Tebow), the refs proved once again why they are the dumbest people working in any sport, or that college football is faker than wrestling to borrow from Mick Foley.

Seriously, the SEC is run by total morons who get their officials from the same agency that the NBA gets their referees. Those idiots need to be given both eye exams and I.Q. tests since they're both blind and retarded.

LSU got screwed out of an interception with 6 minutes left in the game down 21-15. The refs initially ruled incomplete pass, but on replay review, they still ruled it an incomplete pass, despite the indisputable visual evidence on the screen and on the field(there were divots on the field where the LSU defender caught the ball and stayed inbounds). In the NFL, the refs would have reversed the ruling on the field easy(College football needs to be played more like the NFL, but that's another story).

It is truly pathetic and fucking ridiculous that the SEC won't allow criticism of the referees by the coaches and players, even though it is plainly obvious to everyone watching the games that they suck at their job and actually make the NBA refs look good in comparison.

LSU, now 7-2, will host Louisiana Tech next Saturday. The Tigers win out, they still might get into either the Cotton Bowl or the Capital One Bowl.

-I got the DVD My Best Friend is a Vampire Wednesday.

-Some random thoughts:

Vince McMahon during a conference call with investors yesterday talked about starting up a WWE Network(more seriously than before). He should, since he owns the video libraries of at least WCW, ECW, AWA, and World Class. He would also probably have to do like Major League Baseball and the NBA did with their cable channels and offer the cable companies a stake in a WWE Network while maintaining majority ownership, but it could work.

The Saints took a 28-14 halftime lead, then hung on to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in a tough division game 35-27 to remain undefeated at 7-0, matching their best start ever in 1991, and more importantly, take a 3 game lead over the Falcons(4 with head-to-head) in the NFC South.

Drew Brees threw for 308 yards on 25 of 33 attempts with 2 TD passes and 1 INT, and lost a fumble that was returned for a Falcon TD that gave the Falcons a 14-7 lead late in the 1st quarter(though it should have been called back for a helmet-to-helmet hit by the defender). Brees has 2,006 yards passing through 7 games.

Pierre Thomas ran for 91 yards on just 14 carries and scored on a 22 yard run. Mike Bell added 49 yards on 17 carries. Reggie Bush had a rushing TD that gave the Saints the lead for good at 21-14 with 1:05 left in the 1st half.

Marques Colston had 6 catches for 85 yards and a TD(that tied the game at 14), and Jeremy Shockey had 5 for 72 yards.

The Saints defense added 3 more interceptions: Jabari Greer had one he returned 48 yards for a TD(the 5th INT return TD by the Saints this season), Tracy Porter picked off one at the Saint 1 yd line midway through the 4th with the Saints holding at 28-24, and Darren Sharper picked off a Hail Mary attempt(his 7th of the season, tying him for the league lead with Jairus Byrd of the Buffalo Bills) with :03 left.

The Saints will try to make it 8-0 for the first time in franchise history Sunday at 3:05pm at the Dome against the 3-4 Carolina Panthers, who beat the Arizona Cardinals 34-21 yesterday in a weird reversal of their playoff game in Charlotte in January(Cards QB Kurt Warner had 6 turnovers yesterday, 5 INT's and a lost fumble, same as Panthers QB Jake Delhomme did in January).

The LSU Tigers shut out the Tulane Green Wave 42-0 tonight in Tiger Stadium to go to 7-1 on the season.

In a tune-up for next week's meeting with the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Jordan Jefferson threw for 163 yards, 2 TDs, and 1 interception on 11 of 17 attempts, Charles Scott had 112 yards rushing on 18 carries and 2 TDs, and Brandon LaFell had 4 catches for 85 yards and 2 TDs. Russell Shepard also ran for a score.

LSU has beaten Tulane for the 18th straight time(Tulane's last win in the series was in 1982), with this being the 16th time the Tigers have won by double digits. LSU also extended their nation-longest streak of defeating non-conference opponents to 22 games in a row since losing to Iowa on the final play of the game in the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day 2005.

-Today, I got the DVD for Night of the Creeps.

Last week, I got Joe Schmo Show Season 2 for $5 at Target.

Not much to add.

Full disclosure: Earlier this week on nflfans, I had posted that the one thing keeping me somewhat on the fence between "This is the year" and waiting for the other shoe to drop was the fact that the Saints had never trailed this season before today's game with the Miami Dolphins.

Well, after watching the Saints fall behind early 24-3, then rally to win 46-34 to go to 6-0 on the season, I'm firmly in the "This is the year" camp.

The Saints are off to their best start since 1991(they started 7-0 en route to an 11-5 finish and winning the NFC West, their first ever division title).

Drew Brees did struggle against the Dolphins' pass rush, getting sacked 5 times(the Saints had given up 4 total in the first five games), fumbling twice(losing 1), and throwing 3 interceptions(two of them were on tipped balls, though), two of those turnovers leading to 14 of the Dolphins' 24-3 lead(one touchdown by former Saint Ricky Williams, who had 3 TDs with 80 yards rushing on the day including a 68-yard run to make it 14-3, and one by Ronnie Brown). However, Brees ended up throwing for 298 yards and 1 TD on 22 of 38 attempts and scoring two rushing TDs on QB sneak plays near the goal line(first made it 24-10 before halftime after a pass to Marques Colston, after initially being ruled a TD, was ruled just inches short of the goal line on a booth review with :05 left; 2nd gave the Saints their first lead of the game at 37-34 with 8:35 left in the game after John Carney missed the extra point).

The Saints trailed from 7:20 left in the 1st quarter to 8:35 left in the game, a total of 43 minutes and 45 seconds after going the first 5+ games(307:40) without trailing.

Darren Sharper returned an interception 42 yards for a TD(was challenged by the Dolphins because it looked like Sharper lost the ball before he crossed the plane of the goal line, but there wasn't enough indisputable video evidence to overturn the Touchdown ruling on the field), his 6th INT this season(giving him 60 for his career) and his 3rd return TD(11th of his career, 1 shy of Rod Woodson's NFL record). Tracy Porter also returned an interception 54 yards for a TD at the 2 minute warning to seal the game at 46-34.

Mike Bell had 80 yards rushing on 12 carries, Reggie Bush had a 10 yard TD run, Jeremy Shockey had 4 catches for 105 yards(his 1st 100 yard receiving game as a Saint), Marques Colston had 5 catches for 72 yards and a 1 TD, and Devery Henderson had 4 catches for 71 yards.

Edit: The Saints are the first team in the NFL history to score 45+ points in four of their first six games of the season.

The Saints host the Atlanta Falcons(4-2 after losing to the Dallas Cowboys today) next Monday on ESPN Monday Night Football. Because of that, Heroes will not be on the New Orleans NBC station next week.

The LSU Tigers' defense was dominant as they whipped the Auburn Tigers 31-10 tonight at Tiger Stadium, improving their record to 6-1 overall and 4-1 in SEC play.

The LSU offense looked much better than they did all season, though still with a few hiccups. Jordan Jefferson had the best game of his career so far, going 21 of 31 for 242 yards and 2 TD passes(one each to Terrence Toliver and Brandon LaFell), as well as a 15 yard TD run after an Auburn fumble to make it 14-0 in the 1st quarter. Freshman quarterback Russell Shephard(who's being primarily in the Wild Tiger/Wildcat formation for the most part) ran for a 70-yard touchdown late in the 3rd quarter to make the score 31-3.

LSU's defense held Auburn to just 193 yards total offense for the game(just 43 yards in the 1st half), showing continued improvement under new LSU and former Tennessee defensive coordinator John Chavis, though Auburn scored their only touchdown with :03 left and LSU was playing their reverses with the game in hand(which is unusual as this series is known for having some pretty close games, especially lately with the last 5 meetings being decided by 6 points or less).

LSU will host Tulane(lost to Southern Miss 43-6) next Saturday in their last meeting for awhile.

-The New Orleans Saints beat the New York Football Giants 48-27 today at the Superdome, improving to 5-0, equaling their 2nd best start ever(1993).

Drew Brees picked apart the #1 ranked defense and #1 ranked pass defense in the league, throwing for 369 yards and 4 TD's.

Marques Colston caught 8 passes for 166 yards and a TD, Lance Moore 6 for 78 and a TD, Robert Meachem 2 for 70 and a TD, and former Giant Jeremy Shockey 4 for 37 and a TD.

Pierre Thomas ran the ball 15 times for 72 yards, with Mike Bell, Reggie Bush, and Heath Evans all scoring TDs on the ground.

The Saints are now 11-0 under Sean Payton when they run the ball more than throwing it, and the Saints tied a franchise record with 7 Touchdowns today(vs. St. Louis Cardinals, 1969; vs. Green Bay Packers last November).

The defense continues to be show how improved they are from a year ago, as they forced 2 turnovers: Roman Harper stripped Eli Manning of the ball late in the first half, which was eventually recovered by Scott Shanle(Reggie Bush's 7 yard TD run), and Jabari Greer had his first Interception as a Saint. As well, they held Eli Manning(in his first game in his hometown stadium) to 14 of 31 passing for 178 yards, 1 TD, and 1 INT and held Giants RBs Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs(Louisiana native from Napoleonville) to 81 yards rushing combined and 1 TD(Bradshaw from 10 yards out to make it 20-10 Saints).

The Saints will travel to Miami next week to play the 2-3 Dolphins and their Wildcat offense, winners of two in a row after an 0-3 start and coming off of a bye week this week.

-Well, with this surprising but at the same time not-so-surprising news that Shane McMahon is resigning from WWE effective Jan. 1st, WWE is screwed. It was still was stunning to find out this afternoon. Now it's being rumored that Shane may be helping his mother's U.S. Senate campaign. Still, if I were still watching WWE, I'd be even more worried about the product and not just because of the current PG format, even though Connecticut Democommies are using old clips from past WWE programming against Linda. This pretty much gives Stephanie(and Triple-H) full control of WWE(as if she didn't already have it as she is head of creative).

-The next '80s movie getting a sequel: National Lampoon's Vacation

I originally was going to put reboot/remake, but it's actually more of a continuation of the Vacation series, with Rusty Griswold taking his family on a road trip with mentions of the original movie. So will they get Anthony Michael Hall to reprise the role?

Which leads to this article:

http://videogameblog.blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/10383/15-movie-franchises-that-need-reboots/

Regarding that, I could see Ryan Reynolds playing Mahoney in a Police Academy remake, especially wearing this shirt:

For the record, I don't like NBC moving Heroes an hour earlier than usual, because it's harder to do the recapping and reviewing. Personally, I hope NBC cancels Trauma(or Mercy, which would let Michelle Trachtenberg do Gossip Girl full-time) and moves Heroes back to 8pm.

Mini-rant over. On with the review, as I'm surprised I remembered this much.

( The power of music? )

The LSU Tigers suffered their first loss of the season, 13-3 to the #1 Florida Gators, thanks to some bullshit calls and non-calls made by crappy referees in the worst officated sport next to the NBA(at least the NFL referees are more accurate in what they call).

LSU and Florida were tied at 3 apiece late in the first half, and with about a minute to go:

1) LSU stripped Tim Tebow of the ball and the LSU player that stripped the ball was holding it at least a full second before the whistle was blown.(Part of that could go on Les Miles for not challenging the play)

2) On the next play, Florida WR Riley Cooper blatantly pulls the back of Chris Hawkins' jersey a full 3 yards past the 5-yard zone to get a tainted TD that eventually ended up being the game-winner. That's called offensive pass interference anywhere else.

It seemed to me that the officials stacked the deck against LSU for the most part. They called offsides against the LSU defense at least four times in the 1st half when maybe 1 of those was legit because the Florida center was cocking his head to the side right before he snapped the ball before the idiot refs finally caught him doing it at the start of the 2nd half.

The only non-call that LSU benefitted from(though not much) was that the refs didn't call Chad Jones for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Florida RB Brandon James on a 4th down play late in the 1st quarter. But it doesn't change the fact that Florida got away with more in that game and got a tainted victory in Death Valley tonight, despite their defense shutting down an anemic LSU offense.

It's going to suck watching ESPN this week as they verbally fellate Florida QB Tim Tebow almost as much as they do Brett Favre(Tony Kornheiser and John Madden will be on suicide watch when Favre finally decides to retire for good).

LSU's next game is October 24th vs. the Auburn Tigers, which loses a little more luster as Auburn also lost their first game of the season(44-23 to Arkansas), putting both teams 5-1 on the year.

Danica Patrick finished 19th, 15 laps down, just now in the Firestone Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway after an incident in pit road on her final pitstop when she was spun around by Dan Wheldon as she was entering her pit stall and Wheldon was exiting his. Danica had been running in 4th-5th-6th(and a lap down) most of the race to that point.

Dario Franchitti won the race, and won the points title for the 2nd time in 3 years, once again beating Scott Dixon, beating him by 11 points and Briscoe by 12(this time Dixon is his teammate; last time, Franchitti was with Andretti Green Racing before moving to NASCAR Sprint Cup), and once again winning by having enough fuel left in the tank to make it to the checkered flag(Dixon and Ryan Briscoe, who had been battling for the lead the entire race with Briscoe leading the most laps, both had to pit for a splash of fuel with 7 laps to go; Dixon ran out of fuel on the last lap while racing Franchitti in 2007).

The race ended without a single caution flag(a first in Indycar), and ended with just Franchitti, Briscoe, and Dixon on the lead lap(in fact, only Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves even finished 1 lap down)

Despite her finish in the race, Danica still finished 5th in the standings(223 behind Franchitti), her best career finish in the standings(bettering the 6th place last season, 267 behind Dixon).

First Indycar race of 2010 will be in Brazil on March 10th, 2010.

The New Orleans Saints beat the New York Jets 24-10 at the Superdome today, going to 4-0 on the season, and it's their first 4-0 start since 1993.

For all the talk about the Saints offense vs. the Jets defense, it was the Saints defense that made the most noise, harassing Jets rookie QB Mark Sanchez all game, holding him to just 138 yards passing; 3 interceptions with Darren Sharper having 2 of those, returning the first one on the first play of the 2nd quarter 99 yards for a touchdown to give the Saints a 10-0 lead (the longest interception return in Saints history, breaking the record Sharper tied two weeks ago); and sacking Sanchez 4 times(2 each by Will Smith and Charles Grant), forcing him to fumble once in the end zone, which was recovered by Remi Ayodele to give the Saints a 17-0 lead with 9:00 left in the 2nd quarter.

Drew Brees was held to just 190 yards passing, the 2nd straight week he's been held under 200 passing yards(first time since 2006). Pierre Thomas ran for 86 yards on 19 carries and a touchdown as well as 4 catches for 46 yards.

The Saints are off next week, with their next game October 18th against the New York Giants, 4-0 after beating Kansas City 27-16 and could be 5-0 by the time of the game as they take on the Oakland Raiders next week.

Edit: Sharper's interception return touchdown was the 10th of his career, putting him all alone in 2nd place all-time in NFL history(recently enshrined Hall-of-Famer Rod Woodson has the record with 12). Sharper also joined Deion Sanders as the only players in NFL history with 2 interception return TDs of 90+ yards in the same season.

The LSU Tigers beat the Georgia Bulldogs 20-13 today between the hedges in Athens, Georgia, winning on a Charles Scott 33-yd touchdown run with :48 left in the game and getting an interception with :21 left to preserve the victory(the refs initially ruled the play an incomplete pass because it was so close to the sideline, but the replay booth reversed the call), in a wild final 3 minutes that saw the lead change hands 3 times(LSU scored a TD on a 2-yd run by Scott, but missed the 2-point conversion with less than 3 minutes to retake the lead at 12-7; Georgia answered back with a TD with 1:09 left and also missed the 2-point try, making the score 13-12, but they got called for excessive celebration, forcing them to kickoff from the 15 yard line; LSU returned the ball in Georgia and got an extra 5 yards added to the end of the run for a Georgia penalty for illegal procedure for not enough men on one side of the kicker on the kickoff and scored the TD 2 or 3 plays later).

Charles Scott had 95 yards rushing and 2 TD's. Jordan Jefferson threw for 221 yards and 1 INT.

Edit: LSU won in Athens for the first time since a 26-23 win in 1987.

LSU improved to 5-0 and will host the #1-ranked Florida Gators(who might be without star QB Tim Tebow) next Saturday night at Tiger Stadium, 7pm on CBS.

The Saints scored 17 points in the 4th quarter to pull away from the Buffalo Bills, winning 27-7 to improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2006.

Because of windy conditions, Drew Brees was held in check through the game(he only threw the ball deep twice the whole game), going 16 of 29 for 172 yards.

So the Saints ran the ball and ran it pretty effectively, gaining 222 yards, with Pierre Thomas returning from a sprained MCL in his knee to run for 126 yards on 14 carries and 2 TD's(all in the 2nd half), Reggie Bush running for 64 yards on 13 carries, and Lynell Hamilton making his first start with 5 carries, 24 yards and scoring his first career TD(giving the Saints a 7-0 lead).

The defense continues to improve, forcing 2 turnovers, sacking Trent Edwards 4 times, and shutting out the Bills' offense(the Bills' only points came from a fake field goal for a TD). The Saints even held Terrell Owens without a catch, breaking his streak of 185 games in a row with at least one catch.

New Orleans will host the J-E-T-S New York Jets(3-0 after a 24-17 win over the Tennessee Titans) at the Superdome next Sunday at 3:05pm, in the only battle of the unbeatens next week.

The LSU Tigers needed a goal-line stand in the final minute to defeat the Mississippi State Bulldogs 30-26 today in Starkville, Mississippi to remain unbeaten at 4-0.

The Tigers' defense stopped the Bulldogs on three straight plays inside the LSU 1 yard line with 1:16 to go and the score 30-24, and after conceding a safety by the punter running out of the end zone(making the score 30-26 with 1:01 left), the Tigers' defense forced four straight incomplete passes to preserve the win.

LSU's offense continues to struggle with consistency, especially with the running game(just 30 yards rushing). LSU's defense stepped up with 4 takeaways in the 1st half(3 interceptions and a fumble recovery), but LSU only scored 9 points off those turnovers(Patrick Peterson returned an interception 35 yards for a TD on MSU's 1st offensive play, but a botched snap SNAFU'ed the extra point attempt; and a FG on the fumble recovery).

LSU's special teams was hit or miss(they missed a 19 yard FG wide left on a bad snap and a bad hold), with Chad Jones returned a punt 93 yards for a TD to start the 4th quarter.

LSU will travel to Athens, Georgia to play the Georgia Bulldogs between the hedges next Saturday at 2:30pm on CBS.

-Recently I got the following DVD's: Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2, Police Academy 1-4, and a set of Police Academy 5-7 and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1.

I admit being annoyed when I saw/got the Police Academy movies because I already the first three(2 & 3 on one disc) and Loaded Weapon 1.

Not much more to add right now.