Has an AFL game ever ended 88-37?
It has. 88-37 has been a AFL final 2 times in 16,622 games. The first was St Kilda beat Geelong on August 8, 1970; the latest was Melbourne beat Adelaide on August 5, 2020.
That makes 88-37 the 2421st most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 89-37 has happened never and 88-38 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 50 years, between 1970 and 2020.