Raiders Face a Must-Win Game at Hostile Arrowhead

Arrowhead Stadium can be a hostile place for an opposing team. It could be an especially nasty venue for a Raiders team that has lost three straight games and now faces a must-win situation this week and next if it hopes to get into the playoffs. But, there’s this: the Raiders have gone into Kansas City four straight times and come out with a victory. So, while nothing else might be going right for them these days, at least history is on their side. Now the Raiders, 7-7, go into always-loud Arrowhead Saturday to face a 6-8 Chiefs team that shocked the NFL last week with a victory over previously undefeated Green Bay, 19-14, under interim coach Romeo Crennel. Both teams are still alive mathematically in the race for the AFC West championship and an AFC wild-card berth. Depending on what happens over the next two weekends, the Raiders and Chiefs could finish anywhere from first to last in their bunched-up division. Oddsmakers have made the Chiefs one-point favorites. Kansas Cit...