Has an AFL game ever ended 96-65?
It has. 96-65 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Sydney beat Fitzroy on May 31, 1952; the latest was Sydney beat St Kilda on September 16, 2005.
That makes 96-65 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 97-65 has happened 1 times and 96-66 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 30 years, between 1975 and 2005.