The best reason to watch the UEFA Champions League final Saturday is that Germany's two best teams feature what just might be the winning formula in the World Cup in Brazil next year.

The "most-watched sporting event on the planet" will be played this weekend at Wembley Stadium in London, as Bloomberg notes. And while it has declared "Germany" as the "winner" because both finalists are German teams, there's likely to be another big beneficiary emerging from the hype surrounding the Champions League final: Ford Motor Co.

May 23 - The all-German Champions League final pits traditional powerhouse Bayern Munich against modernist Borussia Dortmund at London's Wembley Stadium.

"Football… bloody hell!" Sir Alex Ferguson, famously wrestled to the ground by the English language and Manchester United's astonishing comeback against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League Final, produced a quote so inarticulate it has achieved a kind of gnomic eloquence.    

May 16 - A fight to the death for Spurs and Arsenal on Sunday with the one remaining Champions League spot up for grabs. Plus an all French affair in the Heineken Cup Final.