SOW❇️ALERT! Houston’s UNT FB Letterman & Millionaire featured on Texas Country Reporter.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Hilarious vintage store commercials from UNT alum Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale’s Gallery Furniture.  

Mattress Mack is very involved with the Houston community as featured in the Texas Country Reporter video below.
Some of us started watching Bob Phillip’s video trips all over Texas when he was employed at Dallas’ Channel 4 (KDFW) & his show back in 1972 was called 4 Country Reporter.  Enjoy.

 

Edited February 11, 2022 by PlummMeanGreen

[El Paso Eagle]

Does he have any involvement with UNT these days?

[PlummMeanGreen]

2 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Does he have any involvement with UNT these days?

If there is I’m sure Smatresk &/or Wren Baker initiated it.  I thought they did pretty good with the 2 families whose names are on the Indoor Practice Facility. Jim just bet almost $5 million on the Bengals. 

[All About UNT]

He is a weird dude but I've got mad respect for what he's trying to do with that school and the child daycare for his employees.

[Glory to the Green]

Some friends of ours invited us to a Texas A&M game.  Right before kick off, a Mattress Mack commercial promoting A&M came on. I pointed and told my wife, “UNT Grad.”  Apparently he’s a big supporter of them? 

[PlummMeanGreen]

1 hour ago, Glory to the Green said:

Some friends of ours invited us to a Texas A&M game.  Right before kick off, a Mattress Mack commercial promoting A&M came on. I pointed and told my wife, “UNT Grad.”  Apparently he’s a big supporter of them? 

Lots of Aggies on the Gulf Coast.  
I worked construction at Dow Chemical (Freeport) one summer & thought Dow was a Texas A&M Experiment Station (of which there was one of those 4 miles from where I grew up between Angleton & Danbury). 
 

TAMU has half a million former students & I’d bet most of them live in Texas.  

 As most on GMG would know McIngvale gave North Texas $1,000,000 toward the Athletic Center.  Wren Baker probably needs $50 million for what I think he wants to do to expand the AC, but at least that part is already built. 

[GrandGreen]

As I recall, he was a friend of Dickey and after he was fired; Mattress Mac stopped any NT support.

 

[PlummMeanGreen]

49 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

As I recall, he was a friend of Dickey and after he was fired; Mattress Mac stopped any NT support.

 

He was upset that DD was fired a few weeks after the coach had had a heart attack.  That’s been so many years ago.  

[Glory to the Green]

2 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

Lots of Aggies on the Gulf Coast.  
I worked construction at Dow Chemical (Freeport) one summer & thought Dow was a Texas A&M Experiment Station (of which there was one of those 4 miles from where I grew up between Angleton & Danbury). 
 

TAMU has half a million former students & I’d bet most of them live in Texas.

I don’t doubt that it’s smart from the business side of things, it just caught me off guard. 

[UNTLifer]

Mac does some good things but not if it doesn't put him in the limelight as well.