Has an AFL game ever ended 97-59?
It has. 97-59 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Hawthorn beat Melbourne on August 17, 1968; the latest was St Kilda beat Richmond on June 4, 2010.
That makes 97-59 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-59 has happened 5 times and 97-60 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 29 years, between 1968 and 1997.