1982 CFL season

The 1982 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 29th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 25th Canadian Football League season.

CFL News in 1982

After the 1981 season, the Montreal Alouettes folded. However, one year later in 1982 the CFL granted the city of Montreal a new franchise called the Concordes, which assumed the Alouettes' history and player contracts.

The 1982 Grey Cup game between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Toronto Argonauts attracted 7,862,000 television viewers, the largest television audience in the history of Canadian television.

NBC broadcast CFL games in the United States for three weeks during the 1982 NFL players' strike.[1]

The Edmonton Eskimos won their fifth straight Grey Cup championship.

Regular season standings

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points

West Division
Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
Edmonton Eskimos 16 11 5 0 544 323 22
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16 11 5 0 444 352 22
Calgary Stampeders 16 9 6 1 403 440 19
BC Lions 16 9 7 0 449 390 18
Saskatchewan Roughriders 16 6 9 1 427 436 13
East Division
Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
Toronto Argonauts 16 9 6 1 426 426 19
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 16 8 7 1 396 401 17
Ottawa Rough Riders 16 5 11 0 376 462 10
Montreal Concordes 16 2 14 0 267 502 4

Grey Cup playoffs

Main article: 70th Grey Cup

The Edmonton Eskimos were the 1982 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Toronto Argonauts, 32–16, in front of their home crowd at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium. That was Edmonton's fifth-straight championship, becoming the CFL's most successful dynasty. The Eskimos' Warren Moon (QB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Dave "Dr. Death" Fennell (DT) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence and was the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.

Playoff bracket

  November 14: Division Semifinals     November 21: Division Finals     November 28: 70th Grey Cup @ Exhibition Stadium – Toronto, ON
                           
  East     E3  Ottawa Rough Riders 7  
  E3  Ottawa Rough Riders 30     E1  Toronto Argonauts 44    
  E2  Hamilton Tiger-Cats 20         E1  Toronto Argonauts 16
      W1  Edmonton Eskimos 32
  West     W2  Winnipeg Blue Bombers 21    
  W3  Calgary Stampeders 3     W1  Edmonton Eskimos 24  
  W2  Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24  

CFL Leaders

1982 CFL All-Stars

Offence

Defence

  • DT – Mike Samples, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  • DT – John Helton, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • DE – Nick Hebeler, BC Lions
  • DE – Pete Catan, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • LB – Danny Bass, Calgary Stampeders
  • LB – James "Quick" Parker, Edmonton Eskimos
  • LB – Ben Zambiasi, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  • DB – David Shaw, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  • DB – Ray Odums, Calgary Stampeders
  • DB – Vince Phason, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • DB – Fran McDermott, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  • DB – Zac Henderson, Toronto Argonauts

Special teams

1982 Western All-Stars

Offence

Defence

  • DT – Mike Samples, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  • DT – John Helton, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • DE – Nick Hebeler, BC Lions
  • DE – Pete Catan, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • LB – Danny Bass, Calgary Stampeders
  • LB – James "Quick" Parker, Edmonton Eskimos
  • LB – Glen Jackson, BC Lions
  • DB – Joe Hollimon, Edmonton Eskimos
  • DB – Ray Odums, Calgary Stampeders
  • DB – Vince Phason, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • DB – Fran McDermott, Saskatchewan Roughriders
  • DB – Paul Bennett, Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Special teams

1982 Eastern All-Stars

Offence

Defence

  • DT – Gary Dulin, Ottawa Rough Riders
  • DT – Glen Weir, Montreal Concordes
  • DE – Doug Scott, Montreal Concordes
  • DE – Greg Marshall, Ottawa Rough Riders
  • LB – John Pointer, Toronto Argonauts
  • LB – William Hampton, Montreal Concordes
  • LB – Ben Zambiasi, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  • DB – David Shaw, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  • DB – Carl Brazley, Ottawa Rough Riders
  • DB – Howard Fields, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
  • DB – Mark Young, Montreal Concordes
  • DB – Zac Henderson, Toronto Argonauts

Special teams

1982 CFL Awards

References

  1. "CFL – NBC". Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
  2. "CFLapedia".
Preceded by
1981 CFL season
CFL seasons Succeeded by
1983 CFL season