Has an AFL game ever ended 97-62?
It has. 97-62 has been a AFL final 5 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy beat Geelong on September 22, 1923; the latest was Fremantle beat Carlton on April 23, 2022.
That makes 97-62 the 589th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-62 has happened 3 times and 97-63 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1953 and 2009.