This article theorizes psychoanalytically about sports, contending that its unconscious appeal is driven by tendencies for repetition, loss and self-subversion. Serving as a form of conscious entertainment and escape, sports fandom offers a valuable glimpse into the structure of subjectivity and the dynamics of enjoyment. Using Lacanian theorizing, the article describes how the excess of professional sports has to be thought inextricably in relation to lack. An avid and life-long sports fan, the author further explores the possibilities of being an ethical fan if the unconscious enjoyment sports provides lies in our fantasied encounter with our own contradiction and limits.