Has an AFL game ever ended 73-61?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 73-61 6 times. It first happened on August 2, 1924, when Essendon beat Fitzroy, and most recently on June 4, 2022, when Sydney beat Melbourne.
That makes 73-61 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 74-61 has happened 8 times and 73-62 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 39 years, between 1981 and 2020.