A pair of rugby league legends have fired up at each other in a tense live TV exchange over which is the No.1 football code in Australia.
Queensland great Gorden Tallis and former New South Wales coach Laurie Daley squared off on NRL 360 on Wednesday night.
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Tallis took exception to Daley declaring on The Back Page on Tuesday night that AFL was the biggest winter sport in Australia.
Daley was initially startled that Tallis had confronted him on the issue out of the blue, but regained his composure and doubled down.
Tallis argued that hardly anybody knows who plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants and the Gold Coast Suns.
The former Maroons enforcer suggested that AFL was only the dominant code in Melbourne, but Daley hit back hard.
He reminded Tallis…