It’ll be quite a matchup this upcoming Sunday as the Cincinnati Bengals and the Dallas Cowboys meet for a Week 5 matchup. While the storyline between the two teams’ respective records isn’t all too compelling (Dallas 3-1, Cincinnati 0-4), a lot of eyes will be fixed upon the two poster boy wide receivers of the match: Dallas’ Terrell Owens and Cincinnati’s Chad Javon Johns-I mean-Chad Javon Ochocinco.

Each of these two wide outs is the epitome of excellence that the NFL can offer its fans. Both are amazingly talented athletes who are fully rounded. They have the speed, size, endurance, and moves to be quickly canonized in the NFL Hall of Fame. But if that weren’t enough, these are two players with the most (how should I say it?) “extra flair” in the league.

The showmanship of each player almost precedes their talents anymore and Texas Stadium may not be able to contain both egos. Each team hopes that this doesn’t become problematic on the field and that each receiver can concentrate on the game more than their own image. However it turns out, at least the fans will be entertained.

The Green Bay Packers stressed complete coverage on Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Terrell Owens for Sunday night’s prime time game and boy did it ever work. In the entire game, Owens was limited to only two catches for a total of 17 yards. Basically, Green Bay shut him down.

But they seemed to have forgotten about every other offensive weapon that the Cowboys have. While Owens was attracting double (and sometimes triple) coverage from the Packers’ secondary, backup receiver Mike Austin caught two huge passes totaling for 115 yards and what would prove to be the game winning touchdown.

In addition to his spectacular output, running back Marion Barber ran for 142 yards (career high) and a touchdown, and the secondary running back Felix Jones added  a 60-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.

So at least for now, Dallas remains the team to be beaten in the NFC. This matchup between the Packers and Cowboys had experts predicting the winner to be the best team in the NFL. So, according to them, that’s the Cowboys. But then again, it is only week 3 and there are several other unbeaten teams in the NFL such as the Bills, Titans, and (defending Superbowl champions) New York Giants.

There have been media reports circulating about the Dallas Cowboys WR football player Terrell Owens missing the random drug test conducted by NFL a few weeks ago and when contacted Owens said that the problem occurred due to an error involving mobile phone numbers. It is reported that Owens had given his agent’s number as the primary contact number to the performance enhancing drug testers and the alternative number given to the testers led them to an overflowing voice mail box. Terrell Owens, in his defense, told the media that he had long discussions with the NFL officials and has agreed to co-operate with them in this matter. Terrell’s fans are waiting patiently with their tickets for the NFL season to begin.