Joe Myall, Kurume, Japan I agree that it has to be a team from the Japanese league. Dan Penny, London, UK My vote for the silliest goes to The Mighty Ducks, a professional ice hockey in Anaheim, California. For the benefit of Alasdair Patrick, Lake Forest, California USA, Hamilton Academicals originally were players from Hamilton Academy, a school first recorded in history in 1588. Given that Rushden and Diamonds were formed by the merger of Rushden Town with Irthlingborough Diamonds, we should perhaps be grateful that they did not choose to call themselves Rushden and Irthlingborough. In the league of Wales there's a team called Connah's Quay Nomads.
Nobody's really sure where their home ground is.
As a Hibs supporter, I always found the name of our Edinburgh rivals 'Heart of Midlothian' rather posy. From the title of a Walter Scott book y'know. There are also many teams around Europe which have English sounding names for the same reason, Athletico being a popular prefix in Spain, and so on.