Has an AFL game ever ended 109-97?
It has. 109-97 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat Geelong on May 28, 1983; the latest was Footscray beat Hawthorn on April 18, 2004.
That makes 109-97 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 110-97 has happened 4 times and 109-98 has happened 3 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1980 and 2009.