I've experienced that! It's inane! God cares who wins a football game that's enriching billionaire owners at the expense of ruining players' health. As a secret teenage atheist, when I heard pastors and deacons praying for sports teams, I had to fight hard to keep my atheism secret (for my own good). What I really wanted to do was blast them for being foolish and utterly deranged. Actually, praying for sports teams, now that I think about it, is one of the practices that helped show me that most U.S. Christianity is nonsense - led by men who have no idea how to think.