Has an AFL game ever ended 117-72?
It has. 117-72 has been a AFL final 7 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Hawthorn on May 30, 1936; the latest was Sydney beat Richmond on April 3, 2021.
That makes 117-72 the 191st most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 118-72 has happened 4 times and 117-73 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 51 years, between 1943 and 1994.