Houston's Mattress Mack honored as ‘American hero’ on ‘The Ellen Show’

This story excerpt is courtesy of our partners at KHOU 11. Click here for KHOU's full story. When Ellen DeGeneres and her team heard how Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale opened his northside Houston Gallery Furniture store as a warming center during last week's winter storm, they wanted to meet him. “We knew that Sunday night was gonna be rough, and it was,” Mack told Ellen in the segment taped Feb. 23. “We woke up Monday and there was snow and ice everywhere, which is really foreign to Texas.” The…