Despite record breaking numbers in 2015, the Super Bowl is in fact not the biggest sporting event of the year.The UEFA Champions League Final.In addition to an impressive 200 countries tuning in, the teams in this year’s finals made off with $108 million in prize money, dwarfing the Super Bowl’s $14.9 million collected during the playoffs in January.The UEFA Champions League last year drew a global audience of 380 million viewers, while Super Bowl XLIX had the attention of 114 million viewers, a record for US television.The Super Bowl generates a majority of its revenue through commercials, charging up to $4.5 million for a 30 second slot. By selling advertising slots to competing companies, Super Bowl 49 generated over $360 million in advertising revenue for NBC.The Champions League on the other hand has already distributed its limited advertising slots to its official sponsors.The two teams that made it to this year’s championship game – Barcelona and Juventus- have a total Twitter following of 25 million fans, outnumbering the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawk’s combined Twitter following of 2 million fans.