Has an AFL game ever ended 70-61?
It has. 70-61 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Hawthorn beat Geelong on June 17, 1961; the latest was St Kilda beat Collingwood on July 4, 2021.
That makes 70-61 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 71-61 has happened 4 times and 70-62 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 43 years, between 1961 and 2004.