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and a hall of famer in the broadcasting booth. harry smith now on the legendary tim mccarver. >> reporter: tim mccarver was a very good baseball player. not hall of fame great, but essential, durable, and smart. he was the favorite catcher of two hall of fame pitchers. the cardinals' intimidating bob gibson, and the phillies phenom steve carlton. mccarver loved the game. >> the culmination of everything that you've ever dreamed of as far as baseball is concerned. that's what it's all about. people say they're nervous. there is really no need to be nervous. it's more fun. you like to capture those moments forever. >> good evening, everyone. i'm tim mccarver. >> reporter: it was as a broadcaster, though, that earned mccarver his place in the baseball hall of fame. he teamed with joe buck on fox for 18 memorable seasons. the emmy-winning analyst was too inside baseball for some. but his diligent dissection of data and player habits made him seem downright prescient.
i thought he was very gracious and dignified and a neat way for him to let everybody know all at once with a video and hopefully he has a great day and then a fox analyst. >> bill: when jim gray did the podcast two days ago and played the clip yesterday learning from people who have talked to him for many years. that was a sign that he was leaning toward the broadcasting booth. a colleague of ours now and we welcome you to the fox family, tom, for many years to come. congratulations on an awesome career that may never be duplicated in the history of the nfl. >> dana: good to have you as a colleague. we have more to come. here we go. >> staying in the house and staying warm. trying to get as much done before it gets bad. >> dana: millions of americans in the path of a dangerous ice storm making roads treacherous from texas to kentucky. it is also having a major impact on you guessed it air travel.
there has been a major loss in the sports world. john madden, the legendary hall of fame coach and mainstay in the broadcasting booth has died at the age of 85. joining us now is ted shaker who was john madden's producer at cbs for 14 years and was with him during the coverage of seven super bowls. thank you so much for joining us this morning to talk about just so much of his career from player to coach to broadcaster. and i love something you said about how when he was becoming a broadcaster learning what it is like being in the booth and you said he doesn't know anything about the routine other than what he learned from getting interviewed as a coach. he got up in the booth and said what is this, i'm a mile away from the field. i got to be down on the field, saying it was just so foreign to him to be up in the booth and
jesse, you're never calling a game again. >> i won't do that anymore. >> well, that will be it for that. he's an all-star. stay out of the broadcasting booth. time now for the weather and let's go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. it remains quite cold here in the northeast? how is it looking everywhere else? >> yeah, and ridiculously cold yesterday, and did you see the snow squalls, deadly snow scalls in pennsylvania, so-so a snow squall is almost like a summer time downpour, quick moving, they're in and they're out but in the form of snow, the snows get quickly covered and visibility goes down from, you have good visibility and then just blinding snow, and yesterday, this was the case in pennsylvania, and i mean that guy is just lucky to be alive right there. we had three fatalities in schuylkill county, and 20 injuries and numerous fires and the people who were coming into
>> reporter: tonight, the world of sports honoring the life of a giant among them. john madden. >> epitomizing coaching greatness. >> reporter: from the super bowl -- >> john madden's grin is from ear to ear. >> reporter: to the broadcasting booth. never at a loss for words. >> we want to throw those short little things where he can come back, set up, boom. right there, boom. you go left, left, left, boom, you get him. >> reporter: using that telestrator to draw viewers in, even when it didn't have anything to do with the game. >> if this guy here is pointing to this and if he takes this and dumps it on that, he'll be the player of the game. >> reporter: our michael strahan tweeting, "when you played and jaund madden was on the call, it was time to shine." troy aikman calling him a treasure and incredible friend. on thanksgiving, he was ans institution. >> you cut it, likes right down here. >> reporter: and he was just as good as a pitch man, from beer -- >> could i go for a nice cold beet. >> to foot powder.
night to the late frank gifford. see the fellow espn commentators with the gold jackets calling the game from the booth just like the ones that gifford used to wear with howard cosell and don meredith in his run on "monday night football." he was an icon in the broadcasting booth working an announcer from 1971 to 1997. he died in august at the age of 84. just might be the one. to clean the oceans,
we can relate. cameras caught him facedown in the broadcasting booth. someone had to come over and wake him up. it was during the commercial break. but the announcer is supposed to be paying attention to the game. >> i heard by the way there was a second napper. he was back and to the left of hernandez, one of the better seinfeld references there is. >> okay. >> that transitions us to sports, newly minted mvp lebron james put up a stinker, junk shot if you will. james held without a third point until the third quarter finishing at 15, 122-88. the worst playoff game ever. one game from elimination. can i just tell you, savannah, it could end up being lebron's last game ever in cleveland if he ends up a free agent and decides -- and cleveland loses game six in boston. sad day. >> that would be a horrible way to go. >> nothing sadder than those
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