The Dallas Cowboys picked up a big 20-17 home win in overtime at AT&T Stadium over the Houston Texans on Sunday afternoon, but to quarterback Tony Romo it felt more like a road game.
Romo said after the game that he was "a bit surprised" by the amount of Texans fans flooding AT&T Stadium, such a loud group in fact that the signal caller had to use a silent count at home for the first time ever.
"No question today we played on the road throughout a lot of it," Romo said, according to ESPN. "It was probably half and half our fans to their fans. I don't know what it was, more than you can just tell with the crowd noise. That was every bit as loud as going to St. Louis or Tennessee. We need to understand that. We lose a lot of our ability to do some things at the line of scrimmage, pre-snap and lot of stuff that gives us a big advantage."
There was an estimated 91,159 raucous fans on hand, but not everyone in AT&T Stadium was cheering for the home team.
"For sure my perspective, we have to make sure going forward we have a lot more percentage all Cowboys," Romo said. "The funny thing is when we are all here it's been rocking. This place has really been a tough place for other teams to come in and win when it gets going. I think the fans have been awesome this year. We just need to tighten up maybe on selling our tickets."
This isn't the first time that the Cowboys (4-1) have dealt with not having home field advantage in their own stadium as far as the crowd is concerned as many San Francisco 49ers fans flooded the stadium in Week 1, a game which the Cowboys lost 28-17.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones claimed he didn't notice the crowd in Week 1, but it may have been impossible for him to make that claim after Week 5. Dallas has won four straight games since the loss to the 49ers, and they have three straight home games after a visit to the Seahawks in Seattle next week.
Romo went 28-for-41 (68.3 percent) Sunday for 324 yards with two touchdowns and an interception to put his overall numbers to 110-for-159 (69.2 percent) for 1,260 yards with nine scores and five picks.
The Cowboys are looking to improve on three straight 8-8 seasons and to make the playoffs for the first time since 2009. They may have to play what feels like road games the rest of the way to get there.
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