Has an AFL game ever ended 97-66?
It has. 97-66 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Melbourne beat Geelong on June 11, 1904; the latest was Hawthorn beat Geelong on June 8, 1974.
That makes 97-66 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-66 has happened 6 times and 97-67 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 32 years, between 1928 and 1960.