The Thursday night before Thanksgiving, Jim McIngvale — better known to Houstonians as cash-waving, sports-betting, save-you-money furniture salesman Mattress Mack — sat on a bench facing an outdoor basketball court. There, in the dark, dozens of people huddled in sleeping bags atop flattened cardboard boxes.
Mattress Mack couldn’t remember the last time he’d slept without a bed. It’d probably been 40 or 50 years. Maybe for a hunting trip.
But that night, he was readying to go without his Tempur-Pedic LuxeBreeze to raise money and awareness for homeless young Texans…