Has an AFL game ever ended 62-42?
It has. 62-42 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat Sydney on July 19, 1913; the latest was Geelong beat North Melbourne on July 31, 2021.
That makes 62-42 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 63-42 has happened 2 times and 62-43 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 107 years, between 1914 and 2021.