Has an AFL game ever ended 81-43?
It has. 81-43 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Footscray beat Carlton on June 25, 1955; the latest was North Melbourne beat Hawthorn on August 23, 1997.
That makes 81-43 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 82-43 has happened never and 81-44 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 42 years, between 1955 and 1997.