Has an AFL game ever ended 77-53?
It has. 77-53 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Geelong on May 23, 1914; the latest was Adelaide beat Sydney on July 26, 2008.
That makes 77-53 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 78-53 has happened 3 times and 77-54 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 52 years, between 1956 and 2008.