While the big Collingwood Magpies v. Geelong Cats game will be over by the time you read this — no spoilers, please, as I won’t get to watch it until tomorrow — most of the football world is focused on two of the richest games on the planet on Saturday.

First, the Football League Championship playoff final between Cardiff City and upset-minded Blackpool kicks off at 10:00 AM ET on Saturday. (For American audiences, it’ll be on Fox Soccer Plus and ESPN3.) The winner gets promoted to the Premier League, a prize that could be worth up to £90 million total in terms of prize and TV money.

Then, the European equivalent of the Super Bowl — the UEFA Champions League Final –kicks off around 2:30 PM. Italian champions Internazionale and German champions Bayern Munich, both of whom have already won their domestic leagues and cups this season, will face each other for the right to be crowned Champions of Europe. This game is such a big deal that Fox has moved it off cable and onto network TV. In the USA. They’re even bringing in Fox NFL Sunday host Curt Menefee to handle the studio duties — a move some folks don’t like, but as studio hosts go, I’ll take Menefee over Eric Wynalda any day.

As big a deal as the Champions League Final will be, doesn’t it seem like the stakes are so much higher in that other game?

Sure, not nearly as many people will care about Blackpool v. Cardiff City, but in that game, there’s an entire club’s future existence riding on the outcome. Cardiff City is £30m in the hole and facing a £1.9 million tax debt that it cannot pay. The club has spent over its head in an attempt to win promotion, and as a result, the HMRC in Britain has labeled the club “plainly insolvent.” The Bluebirds could be forced to cease operations if they lose tomorrow.

Blackpool FC, meanwhile, is a small club with a modest history that hasn’t seen top-flight football since 1971 and hasn’t been notable since England legend Sir Stanley Matthews roamed the pitch for them in the late 1940s. The club plays in a stadium that’s expanding to a capacity of merely 16,000. Yet they now stand on the precipice of Premier League football — a precipice they’ll surely tumble from after one season, but it could make enough cash on the way down that it could bolster its lineup, expand Bloomfield Road even further and possibly fight for promotion from the Championship again in a few years time.

Inter and Bayern Munich don’t have to worry about these things. They’re huge clubs that have already hoisted two trophies each this season. Whichever club loses the Champions League Final tomorrow will go home, spending big money to retool its lineup, and give it another go next season. For Cardiff City, a club deep in the hole, there might not be a next season. For Blackpool, a club that has no debt but isn’t exactly rich, there might not be another playoff final like this for a very long time.

Enjoy these games, folks. You won’t see this much riding on any club soccer match for… well, at least another year, probably.