Has an AFL game ever ended 72-64?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 72-64 6 times. It first happened on July 31, 1948, when St Kilda beat Fitzroy, and most recently on July 18, 2015, when Geelong beat Footscray.
That makes 72-64 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 73-64 has happened 11 times and 72-65 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 30 years, between 1958 and 1988.