About the project ESPN's Outside the Lines reviewed and collected more than 16,000 food-safety inspection reports from health departments that monitor the 111 professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey facilities across North America. The review of routine inspection reports from 2016 and 2017 found that at about 28 percent of the venues, half or more of the food service outlets incurred a high-level violation -- one that poses a potential threat for foodborne illness. Outside the Lines also calculated the average number of high-level violations per inspection at each venue, and compared that to the average for restaurants and other food outlets in the surrounding area, for the 82 venues for which we had community data provided by Hazel Analytics. Find your favorite stadium to determine how many high-level violations were found, how the stadium's inspection results compare to other eateries in the surrounding community, and notable samples of our findings. Read the full story. 16,900 Total Routine Inspections 111 North American venues 73 Had as good or better

rates than community 9 Had worse rates than community 28% Had high-level violations at half

or more of outlets inspected Total Venues by Violation Rate 0-25% 25-50% 50-75% 75%+

Three Best/Worst Inspections at some stadium venues turned up a higher percentage of trouble spots than at others. Here are the three venues that had the highest and lowest percentages of outlets where inspectors found at least one or more high-level violations.

Three highest violation rates % Three lowest violation rates % * Venue now closed

Venues without enough vendor data Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C. No inspections were completed in 2016 and just six in 2017. Toyota Center, Houston Instead of issuing an inspection report for each food service location, the health department writes up one inspection report for the entire facility in a way that they could not be broken out. Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta The new stadium, which opened in August 2017, had 122 initial inspections done before the venue opened. There were no routine inspections until 2018. Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec The health department provided only seven reports, of which five were routine inspections and two were in response to a complaint, for 2016 and 2017.