Has an AFL game ever ended 97-95?
It has. 97-95 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Geelong beat Fitzroy on June 16, 1975; the latest was Gold Coast beat Essendon on August 22, 2015.
That makes 97-95 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-95 has happened 5 times and 97-96 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 31 years, between 1975 and 2006.