Has an AFL game ever ended 63-61?
It has. 63-61 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Footscray beat Melbourne on July 1, 1944; the latest was Port Adelaide beat St Kilda on July 29, 2017.
That makes 63-61 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 64-61 has happened 3 times and 63-62 has happened 8 times. At one point the score disappeared for 39 years, between 1978 and 2017.