EXCLUSIVE Footy legend Graham Eadie opens up for the first time about the unwinnable health battle that's left him unable to turn on a TV
Australian rugby league great Graham Eadie has broken his silence about the horror brain condition that's reduced him to using a walker to get around and left him unable to turn on a television.
The former champion fullback, who played 20 Tests for the Kangaroos, was recently diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), decades after playing in arguably the game's roughest era.
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