BREAKING!: Jaj Cousteau Fined $50 For Keeper Violations. Commissioner asks for Cell Phone.

Jaj Cousteau Manager Chris's reaction after discovering he had been fined $50

The AFFL was hit with its first scandal of the 2015 season on Thursday morning when Commissioner Lalazarian announced that current AFFL champion Jaj Cousteau would be fined fifty dollars by the league for violations relating to keeper player procedure. 

"I have spoken with the Commissioner and will accept the fine," said manager Chris in front of reporters early Thursday morning. "We're disappointed in what happened, but like everything else, you just have to Jaj on."

The violations occurred late Monday night, when Chris forgot to make his keeper selections.  After he was contacted by the league in light of this error, Chris asked that the oversight be fixed. AFFL rules stipulate that all managers can elect to keep up to two players from their previous years roster if they so choose, but selections must be made prior to the keeper selection deadline. Any changes made after that deadline would be open to league mandated fines or the loss of draft picks.  The two keepers he failed to keep were Jamaal Charles and Antonio Brown.

Commissioner Lalazarian addressed the situation Thursday morning.

"Managers must understand that the rules are rules for a reason, and nobody is above them, not even a team with as cool a name as Cousteau. Mr. Jaj has failed to follow procedure and so he must now pay for it.  And he will. 'I didn't get the text message is no excuse."

What has caught the ire of the commissioner is that the league made it a point to avoid this type of situation with frequent reminders to managers over the past two months. Subsequently, the league sent out text messages reminding managers to set their keepers the night of the deadline, a text message that Chris says he never received. 

Reports out of AFFL headquarters claim that the Commissioner became "incensed" with Chris's lack of follow through and excuses, and the two "had it out." The situation has escalated to the point that the office requested that Chris hand over his cell phone so the league can examine text messages and phone settings. It is not clear if Chris has followed through with the request. A few people close to the AFFL manager suggested that the phone may have been destroyed in a "jaj accident." Further penalties could be forth coming.

The "Cousteau cover-up" comes at a terrible time as the league is prepares for the 2015 AFFL draft this Friday at 8:30pm at the house of Cousteau.   It remains to be seen if the negative publicity will have an effect on the draft and on the way Chris drafts. It is unfortunate that the team that is hosting the draft is forced to hand over monetary fines despite their hospitality.

But, as Chris puts it, "sometimes you forget to Jaj. It happens. The more important lesson is that you don't forget the second time."

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