. >>> an atlanta hawks dwight howard has posturerized a few months in his career. >> now he's done it to a fan. it's just as cold as if he had taken them to the rim. howard had just been ejected from the hawks game with boston. he's leaving the court and decides to give his jersey to a fan. oh, that's cold. >> oh, denied. >> that he celtics fan rejected. she was all excited. >> oh, look at the reactions of everyone around them. >> like man, that's cold. >> oh. >> like, oh, no, you didn't. >> she's like you know all those rumors about you, d. howard, are true. >>sley give him the stink eye big-time. >> deservedly. >>> coming up, the health scare rear. hear what planneded bob harper inside the hospital. >> and the most exciting fair of the year for the kid inside all of us. dick debartolo takes us inside this year's toy fair in new york 37 first here's a look at today's temperatures. >> announcer: "world news now" weather, brought to you by lysol. (achoo!) did you know you can pick up cold & flu viruses from things in your home for up to 48 hours? it's like

. >> wasn't until 2015 he noticed nba's atlanta hawks had an emoji board. >> it was the first time i ever heard of anything like this. >>> so he added nfl emojis in 2015. they didn't move until a promotional video showed them moving the familiar poses. his customers, sports maniac, began clamoring for them. he built what was the first animated emoji key board. texing with aaron rodgers doing his championship belt. no problem. facebook with odell beck hal jr. why not? >> we expanded it beyond football. >> they began ranking with the big boys. cvs sports, the nfl on super bowl sunday in 2016. one day, sports mania beat them all. >> at that point we knew we hit something that was going to change sports media industry. >> almost overnight, the customer base grew from tens to hundreds of thousands. the nfl players association partnered, introducing sports mania's to the hat maker which now faced sports mania so it can embroider them on tap. and why not? the emojis were shared more than 2.5 million times during nfl's regular season. most popular, carolina panthers quarterback cam newton. b

not julio, they are sending to the atlanta hawks.aying less and less, dario has been playing more and getting better. tiago may be released by the sixers, may not play for them. hasn't played all season and he is in the final year of his contract. the nba trade deadline is tomorrow at 3:00, nba tv reports jaleel will be traded. who is interested tonight? lakers, pacers, bulls and kings. take he was aware this could have been his final practice with the team. >> i did the best i can, just focusing with the guys and going over the plays, working on defense. it was in my mind i could be out tomorrow. i'm happy here. like i said, i've been here. it is all i know as far as the nba goes. i have gotten comfortable here with my team, my teammates. if i'm here i will be more than happy. >> embiid is doubtful for the sixers next games friday and saturday. he went through a full practice today, more intense practice tomorrow. ben simmons did individual drills today. he will have a scan tomorrow to see if the foot is fully healed. brett brown th

to houston where the hawks warm up the stage for the falcons and atlanta fans ahead of the big game againstew england. dwight howard back in houston for the first time since signing we the hawks in the off-season. he scored 24 points s s and gra 23. he made that look easy putting up 23 in the period to finish with a career high of 33 in the game. atlanta wins it 113-108. >>> and finally, the most important sport story of the morning. the stakes are extremely high for the weekend's super bowl. pinning the atlanta falcons who have never won a super bowl against the new england patriots who have four. they couldn't be higher here than for our producers in a beardoff. one beard leaves. our senior producer is from atlanta and pulling for the falcons. our other is a pats fan. loser goes home. full of shame and also will have to lose the beard. results next week o the show. no matter who wins the super bowl, one thing for certain here. someone here at "morning joe" is going to be losing the beard. i feel badly for them because i've never seen either of them without a beard. >> i know. i did the tu

knew if you were from atlanta, georgia, if you were born in atlanta like me and had been following teams like the falcons, the braves, the hawksyou knew that the wheels were going to come off. and, sure enough, let's bring in mike lupica who is down in houston. mike, i'm sure you remember back in the 1980s, the unkindest of cut but "sports illustrated" had a picture of atlanta fulton county stadium on it and the title was "loserville usa." here we are 51 years later and in all of its major sports, atlanta has only one title and, last night, my brother and my son and we were all calling each other, thrilled that we were going to be able to double our championship output. not so fast. >> it turned out to be the greatest game of football ever played by the greatest football player of all time. but, joe, you know? sports, every hero requires a villain and so in atlanta today, they are looking at this as the greatest collapse of all time. i believe when you add it all up, because of the suspension for brady, because he missed the first four games, because his team ran the last 31 points of this game, this is as famous a game of spo