Has an AFL game ever ended 47-38?
It has. 47-38 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was St Kilda beat Sydney on June 8, 1903; the latest was Sydney beat St Kilda on May 24, 1986.
That makes 47-38 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 48-38 has happened 2 times and 47-39 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 79 years, between 1907 and 1986.