Has an AFL game ever ended 157-54?
It has. 157-54 has been a AFL final 2 times in 17,051 games. The first was Essendon beat Hawthorn on May 11, 1946; the latest was Richmond beat Fitzroy on August 26, 1988.
That makes 157-54 the 2495th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 158-54 has happened never and 157-55 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 42 years, between 1946 and 1988.