Average Salaries. The average salary of an NFL player works out to considerably less when not considering the top earners, but these players still make hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Bloomberg Businessweek says the average salary of an NFL player in 2011 was $1.9 million. The median salary was $770,000. When factoring in a typical signing bonus, these numbers can go up well into the $2-3 million range. Each team used to have an overall pay cap that they could not exceed, which was set by the collective bargaining agreement.
A GI (stomach/intestinal) bleed can cause black stools as well. Black color is an indication that the bleeding is caused from higher up in the intestine or the stomach itself (for example, from an ulcer). If the bleeding would be lower (from hemorrhoids, for example), then it would appear red in the stool.
Urgent -- tarry black, black as tar: This is a sign of dangerous, deadly bleeding (a significant amount of digested blood). Call your doctor -- or get 'emergency care'! about checking bleeding or hemorrhaging in the upper GI tract: intestines, the stomach or the esophagus.