Has an AFL game ever ended 97-84?
It has. 97-84 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat Richmond on May 29, 1943; the latest was Essendon beat Footscray on August 8, 2021.
That makes 97-84 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-84 has happened 3 times and 97-85 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 32 years, between 1960 and 1992.