The Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys will face off today in one of the biggest games of Week 5. Both teams are 3-1, and have the chance to really push on and optimize their chances of making the postseason. However, there will be more to today's game than simple records, and there will be no love lost between these two Texas rivals.
The game can be watched on the CBS network, or online through live stream on Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket by clicking here.
The Cowboys get to host today's game at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and they will be hoping that their home advantage will give them the edge against the neighbors.
The Cowboys will be confident coming into today's match up, having destroyed the New Orleans Saints last week 38-17. However, the Texans also managed a win, defeating the Buffalo Bills at the NRG Stadium 23-17.
Today's game comes amid news that the NFL will begin on Monday to test players for human growth hormone (HGH).
Earlier in September, the NFL and the NFLPA announced that they had agreed to a new drug policy; that new agreement was widespread but included HGH testing for the first time in the NFL's history.
A letter written by NFLPA president Eric Winston to players has been leaked, and was published on NFL.com.
The letter reads: "As you know, the new Performance Enhancing Substances Policy includes HGH testing. Testing for HGH will begin on Monday, October 6th.
"Each week of the season, 5 players on 8 teams will be tested. No testing will occur on game days. We negotiated to ensure that the methodology of testing be conducted in the most professional and safest manner for players.
"Importantly, after three years of negotiating, players won the right to challenge any aspect of the science behind the HGH isoforms test in an appeal of a positive test."
If any performance enhancing drug policy violations are found, including HGH, the case will then be passed onto and handled by an independent arbitrator.
