Sam Klein reminds me of a Rebbe who once pushed a friend of mine off the Derech.
The Rebbe gave a fiery Shmuess to his Yeshiva about watching the Super Bowl and one of the things he said was that Hashem is watching what you are going to do during the Super Bowl and judging you. One of the examples he gave was something like “You know your uncle with cancer? If you stay and learn he’ll be fine. But if you watch the game…” My friend’s uncle was diagnosed with an advanced cancer that March and died two weeks later. To this day, I think that friend still fears he killed his uncle by watching the Super Bowl.