Has an AFL game ever ended 76-40?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 76-40 4 times. It first happened on August 13, 1904, when Melbourne beat Geelong, and most recently on September 13, 2020, when Footscray beat Hawthorn.
That makes 76-40 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 77-40 has happened 2 times and 76-41 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 69 years, between 1951 and 2020.