Has an AFL game ever ended 109-96?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 109-96 6 times. It first happened on August 6, 1932, when St Kilda beat Geelong, and most recently on June 19, 1999, when Hawthorn beat St Kilda.
That makes 109-96 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 110-96 has happened 6 times and 109-97 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 39 years, between 1957 and 1996.