Has an AFL game ever ended 87-79?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 87-79 3 times. It first happened on July 17, 1915, when Richmond beat Geelong, and most recently on July 24, 1993, when Geelong beat Collingwood.
That makes 87-79 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 88-79 has happened 3 times and 87-80 has happened 7 times. At one point the score disappeared for 53 years, between 1940 and 1993.