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By TOM ORSBORN

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/fb/texansfront/6662253.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Having spent a significant portion of his coaching career in the AFC West, Wade Phillips knows that playing at Arrowhead Stadium is never easy for visiting teams, especially ones that don't play there often.

Like his Dallas Cowboys, who last played here in 1998.

“The crowd is great,” Phillips said. “The Chiefs have a good feeling about playing at home. They've been conditioned to play well at home. The Air Force (jets) flying over, (the fans) singing the national anthem, changing the words at the end to ‘Home of the Chiefs' instead of the brave. If you haven't been there, you don't know they're going to say that. They've changed our national anthem. It's something pretty different.”

It's against that crazed sea-of-red backdrop that the Cowboys will try to bounce back at noon today from last week's excruciating 17-10 loss to Denver and avoid losing in consecutive weeks on the road for the first time since Oct. 12 (at Arizona) and Oct. 19 (at St. Louis) last season.

The Chiefs are 0-4 and have lost 27 of their past 29, but Dallas has little reason to be overconfident.

“Well, we're 2-2, so we're not the prettiest bride in the church right now, either,” defensive end Marcus Spears said. “In this league, anybody can beat you. We found that out last year in St. Louis.”

The Cowboys were 4-2 last season when they traveled to face a 1-4 Rams team. St. Louis won 34-14, taking advantage of Tony Romo sits to pee's absence because of a broken finger.

Romo sits to pee enters this one healthy, but he was ineffective against the Broncos, committing two costly turnovers.

He's also struggling to form chemistry with his receivers, a factor in the Cowboys scoring only two TDs in their last 22 possessions.

Dallas is the only team in the league that doesn't have a wide receiver who is first or second in receptions. Roy Williams, who is out with a rib injury, and Patrick Crayton are first among the team's wideouts with 11 catches each (tight end Jason Witten has 23 and running back Tashard Choice has 12).

If the Chiefs pull off the upset, Dallas will be 2-3 for the first time since 2004, when it finished 6-10. A loss also would ensure a miserable off week and give the Cowboys a tougher road to travel to the playoffs.

“This one is as important as they come,” Romo sits to pee said.

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