Comments on: Mattress Mack Wants New Facility Named After Coach Who Had Heart Attack And Then Got Canned

By: Truly Knowin

Truly Knowin — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:13:40 +0000

Mcingvale is a greedy asshole who stepped on lots of chumps to get where he is. He sold second hand crap out doors in the awful south tx weather by intimidating his hoodlum sales force into intimidating the morons who came in off his foolish commericials. He even fired his own father as well as literally 1,000s of fools who believed the lie that they would get rich working for him (on commission, starving most faded away from the sales mob of over 100). His charitable contributions are done in the loudest way possible and he intimidates the local media with the threat of witholding his ego-driven ad money from their stations…so none dare tell the truth. Before he grew too big to go unnoticed he hired only white males and would make bigotted statements in sales meetings. He even encouraged drug use by the sales force if “that’s what it takes to get the money.” Only after he was sued and given criminal charges for a scrawny lion biting a little girl’s head half off at his flea market and “Mac” forced to do community sevice did he suddenly become “anti-drug” and used this to get in front of faculties and business groups to promote his self-interests. Nothing he does is original, he took the single location idea from a store in Nebraska (and his curious paranoia about thieves) the jumping up in commercials from Toyota and the attack on the customer from the used car business. When it became known that the real “good old boys” from the houston livestock and rodeo would forever gang up and make certain this self-promotional clown didn’t get the top bid for the prize steer Mac took his bruised ego and went home forever. When the Astros were strong he was suddenly an Astro fan, when the Rockets were the rage he tried to damn near buy thier approval by building their practice site. When Rocket staff see mac and his loud mouthed wife coming someone is sure to mutter “here come the Clampitts”. The Horatio Alger story is bull too, his old man was a big shot weasel in the mobile home insurance market and raised “mac” in a big home in Dallas. And Mac can’t own a business license in texas (the furniture store is in his wife’s name) because Mac was knee deep in the membership-to-gyms-that-would-never-be-built scam in the late 70′s.

By: west

west — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:40:35 +0000

I’m pretty sure Mac started his furniture business by selling coke.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:23:58 +0000

North Texas State’s Music Department is a world class music program with a recording contracts for their jazz band and concert band. Their football team will never be able to make that claim…

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:56:57 +0000

For what it is worth, the music department at Miami is actually one of the strongest music departments at the university, and quite well funded. Can’t speak for other departments in specific, but overall, the school has a $600M endowment and (as best I can tell) an annual operating budget around 10 times as large as UNT’s. Would be interesting to see what those numbers were in the 70s- I’m guessing ‘much smaller’, but really don’t know.

By: Bouj

Bouj — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:10:20 +0000

I agree Mac does some good stuff, but he has the capacity to be a self-righteous prick at times. Before the NFL Draft, he led a personal crusade to draft Vince Young, included multiple full-page ads in the Houston Chronicle. When the Texasn went for Mario, Mac was on TV and the radio ripping them to pieces and said he was going to drop his advertising at Reliant Stadium (which is EVERYWHERE there, so it’s a lot of fucking money). HE acted like a spoiled little shit who didn’t get the toy he wanted for Christmas.

By: DrewJ

DrewJ — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:36:11 +0000

Mack (and I agree that there wasn’t a “k” when I was a kid) is one of Houston’s best citizens. He is a big supporter of local athletics (not the least of which was the fact that he used to be the title sponsor of the Houston bowl). The man has more money than God, has raised it through ethical means, and if he likes to throw around his $$ in ways to encourage other people to be ethical, more power to him. His furniture store is the 3rd biggest in the country and almost all of his employees are rehabilitated shady characters.

And if you think that commercial was bad, you should have seen some of the commercial back in the day.

By: grungedave

grungedave — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:58:56 +0000

Or maybe there *is* a “k” now – wouldn’t be the first time a Houston individual added a letter (Akeem/Hakeem)!

By: grungedave

grungedave — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:57:11 +0000

It’s a Houston thing…

if you live here, Mattress Mac (no “k”) is a local icon.

By: Quality

Quality — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:11:21 +0000

What you really need to do is go check out the photo in the top right-hand corner of the University of North Texas website (http://www.unt.edu/), over “Early Registration for 2007.”

By: BA

BA — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:08:11 +0000

I grew up watching those commercials. I think he even recognizes that the commercials are so terrible they are funny.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:00:35 +0000

–”Mr. Arizona, we understand that your given name is Nathan Huffheim.”
–”Yeah, what about it?”
–”Care to tell us why you changed it?”
–”Sure. Would you buy furniture from a store called ‘Unpainted Huffheim’?”

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:14:55 +0000

Only in Texas could a mattress salesman look more honest than University officials.

By: Critical Sports Blog

Critical Sports Blog — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:37:20 +0000

He should give the million to Dickey-he’s the one that had the heart attack.