Has an AFL game ever ended 140-97?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 140-97 3 times. It first happened on July 13, 1946, when Melbourne beat Geelong, and most recently on August 6, 2005, when Footscray beat West Coast.
That makes 140-97 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 141-97 has happened 1 times and 140-98 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1946 and 2002.