Has an AFL game ever ended 97-64?
It has. 97-64 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Geelong beat Collingwood on August 28, 1926; the latest was Richmond beat Carlton on March 21, 2019.
That makes 97-64 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-64 has happened 3 times and 97-65 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 73 years, between 1926 and 1999.