Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Mike Humpal"

It's Lincoln Park in the end.

Rock 108 morning show.

It's 907.

Most of you know, they've been listening for quite a while.

Bleed black and gold.

We're in the black and gold today, mostly because my grandma got me into the Hawks when I was very young.

My grandma didn't know much about football.

She just liked it when the team scored touchdowns.

And when she'd go to the field, she loved Hayden Fry.

So I have my guest here today, former Iowa linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, Mike Humphill.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

So be here.

This is a, this is an interesting week for Iowa players, whether it's Iowa or Iowa State.

This is a huge week.

So what are some of the players thinking right now, you know, even in the black and gold,

you know, there, I got to believe they're thinking, Hey, this is a great opportunity.

And it's a big, big rivalry, whether they're from Iowa or new to Iowa.

There's so many players on the team at different levels, different ages, different phases.

So, you know, you get the starters your backups, you know the other support guys So they're all they're all kind of coming from different angles positions But the main thing they got to be thinking of hey, this is you know, no one's given us a chance to win this game right now We we need to go over there.

It's our first game away.

Stay focused and go play a good game They have the ability they've got a good they got a good group of kids young men and coach

Coach Ference, that's not his first rodeo.

As we all know, he does a tremendous job of rallying the troops and getting the most out of everybody and correcting mistakes in game, those kinds of things.

So they're going to get a great effort at Iowa State.

They're a tough team this year and been playing well recently.

Coach Campbell's doing a great job for them.

So it's hard to say that as a Hawkeye fan, but you got to give credit where credit's due and say, hey, you know what, that's a good challenge for...

for us as Hawkeyes and we'll be excited to see what happens.

My couple with us here on the Rock 108 Morning Show, do you miss playing on Saturdays and Sundays?

You know what?

You do miss playing.

You don't miss the bumps and bruises.

You don't miss the Sundays or the day after, I should say.

And you miss the biggest thing, you miss the playing with the boys and the practicing with the boys and going through the grind with them.

You know pushing yourself through and pushing yourself harder than you thought you could when you're when you're with your buddies That's that's the part that you really miss.

Yeah, that brotherhood and fellowship component And in Saturdays are our fund no matter what stadium you're playing in.

Yeah, Nick Obviously one of the one of the you know, it's probably the greatest all-time place to play and being a defender You know a quick little story there as a defender in kinetic there.

There's times you can't hear yourself think it's so loud

You know, as a defender at home game, because your home team's cheering against the opposing team offense.

So you get used to playing, you know, basically the game of football just inside your own head, because you can't hear.

Did you and some of your other teammates, the other defenders that were out there, you guys kind of have some sort of signals or anything like that that you would work on together, kind of to think as a unit when it was that loud?

Absolutely.

Yeah, there were a few, very few signals, but it was also it was when you practice and you

did so many repetitions over and over, you knew the play calls, everybody knew, they signaled, back then this was the old days, you didn't have headsets, to somebody calling the plays, but they signaled it in from the sideline with play signals, everybody knew it, but you still had the Mike Linebacker communicate it half the time, you probably couldn't hear it anyway, and they're making in-game, during the play checks, pre-snap checks, and you just sometimes hope that,

that everybody

knew what they were doing.

So you're going to be taking on Russ and Marshall's marketplace here in just a few minutes, which I know is not like hitting another person, you know, like a big tackle or anything like that.

But do you have one or two particular hits that you had in your career that still stick with you today?

No, there was one.

I think it was against Wisconsin.

It's one of those.

Delayed throws to the flat and I was a flat defender and and that ball kind of seems to be floating for a little while by the time you You can kind of time it up and hit the guy right as he catches it.

Yeah, kind of those declutter type that everybody loves One of that was probably that would be one of them otherwise

You know, you just remember the biggest thing you remember isn't necessarily the individual plays, but more just that feeling after the game when you're like, Hey, man, we did it.

You know, celebrating with your buddies, like those emotional.

Um, experiences are what you really remember the

most.

Mike Humphill with us.

Now he caused some bumps and bruises out on the field may have rearranged some bones around, but now rearranging some bones at Humphill chiropractic.

We'll talk about his career after football and Marshall's marketplace coming up right now.

Metallica, the unforgiving rock.

It's the latest from never tell criminal on rock 108 925 Brian Marshall Russ morning to you morning and our guest former Iowa and Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Mike Humphill is joining us here today.

I Is this where we start?

I think so Russ has told me before Mike that I've told him you got to go to Kinnock.

We've got to see a game at Kinnock.

Why has he never been there?

No.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, he he feels that he likes to watch the game of football and television

And so then when he was watching some of the Iowa game this last week, and then here's the Hawkeye faithful afterwards is, ah, you know, we were cussing it up a little bit.

You obviously know why, because we didn't destroy the team, right?

I mean, not the entire game, no, but a second half, it was pretty good, you know, which is a good indication of in-game, mid-game adjustments and saying, hey, you know what, we're maybe not doing everything real well right now, but let's go out and...

Let's run the ball.

I think people don't like,

is it France?

Right, Ference?

I think people don't like Ference's offense.

That he runs a different, and runs is the key word.

He runs a different offense from the rest of the league.

Is it a league?

What do you call it?

Conference.

Whatever you want to call it.

That's semantics, right?

But he, it's hard to argue with the success he's had over the years.

And obviously I'm a Kirk Ference guy.

I played for him.

He recruited me here.

Brian and I were talking earlier, he gets the most out of the guys that he has.

And, you know, he focused, I would argue that I don't necessarily believe that winning is the most important thing to him at all times.

It is just the byproduct of the processes and the teachings that, and the coachings that he does on a daily basis.

And you see the outcome of it.

And it's guys,

Improving from day one to the lot to the last day, you know from freshman year senior It's the the strong tradition and success of guys going on and have an opportunity to play in the NFL being being very effective at that level and in You know a lot of people would say oh, I would doesn't stand a chance to win this game or that game and But he but he comes out and he feels a solid team and they play well and

Was that two years ago they won 10 games and basically had one of the worst offenses in the country So it's easy to pick things apart and say oh, I don't like this.

I don't like that He's doing this believe me.

I

come from one of the worst sports towns in the country Boston And they're very vocal, but they will also take a W

Yeah, well, you know what that's actually one of the hardest things as an athlete is

At least even for myself, maybe not for everybody, but I think a lot of us athletes in the higher level you go, you have such a perfectionist sort of approach and mentality to it.

You're always wanting to improve the things you're not doing well.

You're only as strong as your weakest link individually and then collectively as a team.

So you're always trying to improve those weaknesses.

And sports, much like radio, is a place where the...

We're the viewers, or in our case, listeners, know more about how to program the radio station than the actual professional, sorry to do it.

I'm chair

quarterbacks in

every industry, right?

They just don't get hurt trying to pick out the next song here.

It's very similar, very similar.

We have competition coming up here shortly.

Warren is going to be joining you as your teammate, Russ, Marshall's Marketplace, where you'll be facing

I have former Iowa linebacker Mike Humphill from Humphill Chiropractic.

We will be talking about his business too.

You guys will face each other right after this.

It's Marshall's Marketplace on the Rock 108 Morning Show with your host, Brian Marshall.

And we have a special guest that is taking on Russ here today.

Former Iowa linebacker, Mike Humphill is our guest.

He also has Humphill chiropractic, which we'll be talking about here shortly.

Are chiropractors doctors?

Do you address

them as a doctor?

They're

doctors of chiropractic.

They are.

Okay.

Great question.

I never knew.

Doctor means teacher.

So we're teaching people about chiropractors.

That's why I could call you rabbi, too.

There we go.

Can I be at the Doctor of

Trailback Thursday?

That's an East Coast joke nobody gets on the West.

On the

line right now is Warren from Cedar Rapids and Warren is going to be your teammate.

Warren, you're live on the air and what do you got to tell Russ here today?

Oh, let's win.

What child do you live in, Warren?

Cedar Rapids.

So

Warren's representing Cedar Rapids.

Alright, you guys are gonna pair up against Mike Humphill here today.

Nothing over $545.95, gentlemen.

We start with a human spine model in Davenport.

A vision scientific flexible spinal column, color-coded muscle with the occipital bone, the sacrum, the coccyx.

Did I pronounce that right?

You got it.

Alright, 24 vertebrae soft disc, pelvic bones and femur heads, and more.

Rust to you first.

Wow, this is a medical marvel.

It's Jesus.

It looks like Does it give the height it looks like real size?

It looks like it stands, you know this about the same height as a human being would I can pick out the ones that give me trouble on a weekly basis Warren, what do you think?

It's a you know, it's a medical demonstration piece

Is it a Halloween decoration?

Oh

no, this is legit.

This is like

something a doctor would have in his office.

I would say $75.

I think that's a pretty good guess.

I'm gonna stick with you on that one and put the pressure on the

doctor.

Okay, $75 final answer.

Yep.

Alright, $75.

So to you, Mike Humphill, it's more than that.

You think

it's more than that?

It sounds so...

More than

that.

Sure about it.

Unless this person's given a heck of a deal.

It's definitely more than that.

Okay.

So final answer?

Final answer more than that.

Do I got to give a number?

No.

Sorry.

All you have to do is hire a lower.

That's it.

They're offering this for $60 on

Facebook

Marketplace.

You might want to bump your price.

He's

on

his phone now

trying to buy

it.

All right.

So Russ and Warren lead one to nothing.

But

we move on to a Pittsburgh Steelers Danbury Mint cuckoo clock in West Union 2014 Pittsburgh Steelers cuckoo clock requires two D batteries and one double a works in complete excellent condition to you first Russ

genetically predisposed to hating the Steelers.

Sorry.

We can't

all be

perfect.

Part of that comes from living in Baltimore and Baltimore fricking hates the Steelers,

right?

That's

a big rivalry.

Yeah, it's a

big rivalry.

I am going to say, Warren, this is a, it looks like it's wooden.

I don't know if it is.

It could be a very good job of making plastic look wooden.

There is a little stadium imagery down at the bottom.

Hinesfield.

Hinesfield.

There are no hands on the clock.

But it does have Steelers logos at noon, three, six and nine.

So there you go.

What do you think?

Well, I am a Steelers fan.

Oh, no.

There we go.

So and it's not having no hands on the clock itself.

Probably is going to drop the price of it.

So I would guess $125.

125

Russ.

Yeah, I'm just gonna go with Warren.

Okay.

I'm gonna go with Warren.

He was good the first time.

Mike Humphill, who played for the Steelers.

What do you think on the price?

Higher or lower than 125?

I initially wanted to go lower, so we'll just stick with it.

We'll go

lower.

You say lower.

Lower final answer?

Final

answer.

I'm so sorry, 359 dollars.

I should have asked my dad on that one.

He's an auctioneer he didn't know.

He could have been within $5.

Oh yeah.

He can.

He can cry.

You got it.

The auctioneers cry.

That's what they call it.

I didn't know

that.

Alright, final item here to save face.

An authentic game issued Iowa Hawkeyes football uniform in Cedar Falls.

A full

Alternative uniform jersey and pants issued for the game played at Kinnick Stadium versus Minnesota Saturday, November 15, 2015 Iowa wins the game extends their perfect record to Teneno there.

I'm thinking it might be wide receiver

Number two in 2015.

What's that?

You looked up number two who number two was Brandon Bishop

is who I'm thinking it might be I'm gonna real quick before we get into this Russ

As you're looking at this, Mike Humphill, is this, would this be an authentic piece

of business right here?

Yeah, this looks authentic to me.

I can't believe how long those shirts are, the jerseys.

You gotta be able to tuck them in

so I

can't grab them.

Yeah.

Um, looks like a very small, small waisted, uh, medium, size medium.

Is it really?

Wow.

Uh, Warren, what do you think?

This is just the jersey and the pants.

Um,

Has the

no helmet no

helmet has the Hawkeye logo on one side of the pants has the swoosh from Nike on the other side

And you said it was back from 2015.

Yep.

Perfect season.

Remember?

Yeah,

they gave one.

It doesn't say game warren says game issued game issued He was a redshirt freshman.

So probably didn't see the

family didn't

cry

Didn't even didn't even step out on the field

You may have warmed up and stood on the sideline, but maybe didn't play anything.

There you go.

What do you think?

I would I would say Top price that we can't go over 545.

Yeah, 545.

Yep.

And

well, I would say it 400 Okay,

I'd go higher.

Okay.

What are you thinking?

Warren, let's go 450

Okay, I'd go higher.

Yeah,

let's go 450.

Let's bump it up.

Okay 450 we turn to you my couple higher or lower.

I

gotta go lower.

You're gonna go lower.

Yeah, I am true.

Yeah,

it's lower.

It's lower for sure

100%

You

set me up, Marshal.

I was trying to give him

the win by going so high that the only

option would

have

been lower.

Oh my goodness.

Also, now can we, can we do, can we like, you know, verify these prices or is this Brian just holding them here behind the desk?

Uh, $63.59 and this one was listed for $500.

What do you think?

Is that a little too

high?

It's definitely worth it.

Yeah,

definitely worth

it.

Couple chiropractic got swept today.

But we will talk more about the business and life after football.

Warren, hang on the line.

I'm going to get the rest of your information.

You win the $40 gift card to the Barrel House in Corville, plus the certificate that says that you won in Marshall's Marketplace.

This is Creed, higher on Rock 108.

with hire on rock 108.

Mike Humphill is our guest who grew up in New Hampton.

You said you listened to rock 108.

Were you a Creed guy?

I was a Creed guy.

Yeah.

You were a Creed guy?

Always trying to be taken higher.

Yeah.

Let's go.

Do you have that in your CD in the

visor of your vehicle?

Ah, several CDs.

The divisor of the vehicle.

Yeah, that and Enter Sandman, Metallica.

Yeah,

everybody.

Seems like everybody in that era also had chocolate starfish of Limp Biscuit too.

Did you have that?

Oh yeah, Limp Biscuit, corn, you know?

Yeah.

Freak on a leash, all those.

Yeah, it was great.

That's fantastic.

Well, Mike Humphill is with us.

Yes, former Iowa linebacker, but also has Humphill Chiropractic and Russ, you had a question for

me.

No, I didn't, but P1 Brody sent in a question.

Yeah.

I love when listeners get involved.

You have to ask this ex Steelers player what he thinks of the team this year with Aaron Rodgers.

Hmm.

And you still follow closely.

What's going on with the Steelers?

I don't follow closely, but I do.

I do keep one eye on them just because they gave me an opportunity to play and I appreciate that.

What I think I think they got they got a good chance to be a good team.

You know, I think they're going to be solid on defense.

Aaron Rodgers, you know, people say what they want about him.

He has the ability.

And Coach Tomlin is a tremendous leader.

His ability to bring those professionals together.

And that's not an easy task.

No, that's the

herding cats thing.

Yeah, it's not an easy task.

I don't know if that's easier or coaching a first and second grade flag football team.

I'm not sure which is the more and more wild herd of cats.

The same emotions.

Yeah.

But, you know, I think those professionals probably fight back a little bit more.

But anyway, so I think I think they got a they got a great chance to win some games this year.

With that, with your new practice, how long have you been having to come from chiropractic?

How long have you had it around eight years, eight

years?

Really?

Yeah.

Did you always think that you were going to get into chiropractic care?

You know, it was an early thought high school and high school.

My mom actually thought, hey, you make a great chiropractor.

She took me a few times and you should do that.

But honestly, I was like,

Kind of an afterthought.

I just want to go play football and that's what I'm going to pour my heart and soul into.

And you always knew you had to do something or you were going to have to do something with football.

I would say it's adjacent to football because you're learning so much about your body and how it operates in football.

You have

to.

Yes.

I always loved the strength and conditioning aspect of the game, the performance and the training where it wasn't just football X's and O's and practice with the pads and helmet on.

So much more that goes into it.

And it's the diet and nutrition, the sleep habits, the self-care.

What are you doing afterwards?

Do you need to be doing some extra stretches and those kinds of things?

And Coach Doyle Christoyle, a strength coach at Iowa at the time, he was tremendous.

He was on the forefront of all of those topics from a strength and conditioning standpoint.

And he taught us more about.

about that than we knew at the time.

And then you fast forward, get into your chiropractic education, and you're going through some of those courses.

I mean, why learn this already at the football, you know, through the football program, not in a classroom.

Did Tom Brady take it to an extreme with his TB12 program?

He's an extreme guy.

Yes, yeah.

You know, the margins are so much smaller the higher up you go in anything.

So you have to get every ounce out of everything possible for that to stay at your best, to be at your best and gain a competitive advantage.

So we'll have more with Dr. Mike Humphill from Humphill Chiropractic.

And I want to get your prediction on the Iowa State game.

Is that good?

That's good.

And I want to know how much crap you took in seventh grade for the last name.

We'll do that all after Papa Roach here in just a few.

Papa Roach, their latest called Brain Dead on the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Ryan Marshall, Russ, and our guest, Mike Humphill here from...

I snipped the best picture last night after the Cowboys game.

Yeah, okay.

The face of Jerry Jones after they lost.

before after Dak Prescott got spit on.

Oh, that was unbelievable.

Did you catch any of that game last

night?

I saw bits and pieces of it.

We were having our flag football game last night, so I missed it.

You're still playing?

Not me.

No, my son, he's nine, third grade.

Does that make you feel proud as a dad to watch him play?

Oh, it's fun.

It's a

blast.

Oh, yeah, it's a blast.

I love coaching those kids and being with them.

Now, do

they have the...

The Poppers or the Velcro?

The Poppers.

We like the Poppers better than the Velcro.

They were

harder to get out.

Interesting.

What's he training to

be?

Just anything right now?

Flag football or?

Just anything.

Yeah, we rotate him through.

They all get an opportunity to play different positions and just try to teach them a general understanding of football and just to learn how to compete, have a good attitude, push themselves, be tough, those kind of things.

Is there a winner and a loser?

There is.

All right.

There is.

We like that.

Yes, there is.

No participation trophies.

There are none.

Interesting.

Is he going to follow in your

footsteps linebacker?

I don't know.

He might be a baseball guy.

Really?

He's a lefty.

I wasn't a baseball guy, but he's a lefty.

So he gets a lot of social influence to be a baseball guy.

There needs to be more baseball, I believe.

I think it's a great sport that is

slowly becoming a raisin.

Okay.

It

was the

original American pastime.

Right.

Right.

And I still think it's a great sport.

Baseball's not bad.

Not bad at all.

Coach Heller's doing it.

Heck of a job there.

Yeah.

Now

baseball I'll go to.

Oh, so we can at least get you down to Iowa City for baseball.

Well, I used to go to the Bucks up in Waterloo and loved it.

Okay.

I know that they're a lower level of professionalism, but it was great because I'm very vocal.

No football sucks to be there it really does Wow, it's how I went to the Patriots AFC Championship game

And I had passes from CBS that allowed me onto the field.

Yes.

And I still hated every minute of being there.

Oh, my

God.

It was

probably too cold.

No, it actually wasn't cold, but it was just such so much work to get there and

navigate the park.

Unicorn.

Traffic going in, traffic going out.

You just go from home to work every day.

Yeah, pretty

much.

Go nowhere else.

Perfect, perfect

individual for your practice there at Humphill Chiropractic.

Sit around.

as much as you can, your back will start hurting, and then you're gonna have to go to the chiropractor

eventually.

That's my life right

there.

What's a way that somebody that's listening right now can find your practice, and what's the easiest way to get a hold of you guys?

Humplechiropractic.com, it's a great way to start.

Go Humple.

H-U-M as in Mike, P as in Paul, A-L, Humple.

Like pal, he's your pal, Hum-Pal.

They're in North Liberty.

We can be pals.

Still accepting new patients?

Always, yes, always.

Yep.

Fantastic.

All right.

Final question.

Here we go.

What's your prediction for Iowa State this weekend?

I think it'll end on a last second field goal.

How guys will be the victors?

Wow.

I'm surprised you didn't say Hawks by a million.

That's not my slogan or I would.

It's a good one.

It is a good one.

Those guys would do a great job.

Last second field goal.

How do you think the defense is going to play?

Think they're gonna be improved from last week, and I think they're they're gonna play tough a good Phil Parker run defense They're gonna throw some wrinkles at the cyclones, and they're gonna have their work cut out for them That's for sure

and on Monday people will still be bitching I will be yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Sorry Mike.

It's just sometimes

TV game

Yeah, here big locally big

big new it's a big noon kickoff It's it's yeah fox's version of ESPN game day.

I thought that that might be a national game

It is make sure you wear your black and gold a rust.

Yeah,

I will

Mike love to have you back here sometime in the in the future, you know, thanks for yeah, be great.

It's a lot of fun.

Thanks guys I'll do better next time on the marketplace to you.

I promise there we go 958 offspring up next