Recently, ESPN collected data on the percentage of concession stands at each of North America's major professional sports' venues that were tagged hit with "critical" health violations.

However, it isn't fair to rate these stadiums and arenas simply by their overall percentage of concession stand violations, as health departments in different states and cities clearly monitor sporting venues with differing levels of scrutiny. (For example, ESPN uncovered that every major sports venue in Florida had at least a 67 percent overall rate of critical violations. Whereas, miraculously, three of the four ballparks in the city of Chicago had absolutely no critical violations!)

So, we've taken ESPN's data and formed our own list of the five grossest stadiums in North America. We've computed these rankings based on a nominally scientific formula that includes how a venue compares to the others in its area, plus ESPN's anecdotal reporting of specific, unappetizing violations seen at that particular stadium.

1. Verizon Center (Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals)
D.C.'s Verizon Center is another venue where 100 percent of food vendors garnered critical health violations. Ten of its stands were cited for preparing food amidst rodent droppings. The fact that only 25 percent of of vendors in Nationals Park, the other downtown sports venue in our nation's capital, received critical health violations makes the Verizon Center's (im)perfect score that much more unpalatable. In fact, one could call it "a national disgrace."

holy... shit... dude, i'm never eating there again.