Has an AFL game ever ended 87-87?
It has. 87-87 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy and Carlton drew on August 18, 1951; the latest was St Kilda and Hawthorn drew on July 23, 2010.
That makes 87-87 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 88-87 has happened 6 times and 87-88 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 58 years, between 1951 and 2009.