Has an AFL game ever ended 96-80?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 96-80 6 times. It first happened on June 6, 1936, when Melbourne beat Footscray, and most recently on September 13, 2013, when Geelong beat Port Adelaide.
That makes 96-80 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 97-80 has happened 4 times and 96-81 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 45 years, between 1962 and 2007.