GalleryFurniture.com Bowl

The GalleryFurniture.com Bowl will no longer exist. Houston's Most Annoying Man, "Mattress Mac" (he calls himself that) announced today that he will no longer be sponsoring the ho-hum bowl game. No doubt, the bowl game will have its work cut out for it finding a sponsor like Mac's Gallery Furniture, truly as ridiculous as the game itself.

But Houstonians relieved that Mac, ever the LOUD one, will perhaps have one fewer advertising vehicle should not be. Rumors continue to swirl that he's thinking of stepping up and taking over Enron's sponsorship of the Astros' ballpark. Won't that be great?! Mattress Mac for 4-5 hours at a time, at LEAST 81 games per year, and, if history holds, at least one game of a first round playoff debacle. Maximum Exposure!

I love Houston. I really do. It's a great city DESPITE its drawbacks. But when its public faces are the nation's largest newspaper never to have won a Pulitzer (they call themselves "Houston's Leading Information Source"), Ken Lay, Mattress Mac, and Mayor Pothole -- well, it's gonna be hard to convince cynics of the city's virtues. No matter how hard some of us try.

[Posted at 19:51 CST on 02/01/02] [Link]