Has an AFL game ever ended 71-39?
It has. 71-39 has been a AFL final 6 times in 16,622 games. The first was Melbourne beat Essendon on May 28, 1904; the latest was Adelaide beat St Kilda on July 13, 2024.
That makes 71-39 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 72-39 has happened 1 times and 71-40 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 65 years, between 1955 and 2020.