Has an AFL game ever ended 62-53?
It has. 62-53 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Melbourne beat University on June 28, 1913; the latest was Adelaide beat Carlton on April 21, 2001.
That makes 62-53 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 63-53 has happened 3 times and 62-54 has happened 9 times. At one point the score disappeared for 80 years, between 1921 and 2001.