Has an AFL game ever ended 139-98?
It has. 139-98 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Collingwood beat Essendon on July 8, 1933; the latest was Richmond beat Footscray on May 22, 1982.
That makes 139-98 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 140-98 has happened never and 139-99 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 39 years, between 1943 and 1982.