Has an AFL game ever ended 97-55?
It has. 97-55 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Sydney beat Geelong on September 15, 1934; the latest was Geelong beat Adelaide on May 28, 2022.
That makes 97-55 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-55 has happened 3 times and 97-56 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 82 years, between 1940 and 2022.