Has an AFL game ever ended 86-28?
It has. 86-28 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Geelong beat St Kilda on July 7, 1900; the latest was Essendon beat Carlton on June 11, 1955.
That makes 86-28 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 87-28 has happened 2 times and 86-29 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 42 years, between 1913 and 1955.