The depths of musical artistry were matched only by Karl-Heinz's feats of verbal acrobatics as a co-commentator for ARD in the 1990s.
A textbook case of rhetorical chance. Simple facts were made complicated; for complicated facts, he fell back on Dadaist sentence constructions. Gerd Rubenbauer and Heribert Faßbender on one side, Rummenigge as sidekick — that was four years of ARD football television before the turn of the millennium. Rummenigge: "If you come down the right, the back centre has to drift left, otherwise there'll be collapses at the front."