1982 CFL season

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1982 CFL season
East champions Toronto Argonauts
West champions Edmonton Eskimos
70th Grey Cup
DateNovember 28, 1982
ChampionsEdmonton Eskimos
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1982 CFL season
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800km
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Concordes
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Rough Riders
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Argonauts
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Tiger-Cats
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Blue Bombers
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Roughriders
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Eskimos
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Stampeders
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The 1982 CFL season is considered to be the 29th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 25th Canadian Football League season.

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CFL news in 1982

After the 1981 season, the Montreal Alouettes folded. However, one day 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 four CFL games in the United States over three weeks during the 1982 NFL players' strike. [1]

Alcoholic beverages were sold at all CFL venues for the first time, after the Legislative Assembly of Ontario voted to lift the province's long-standing prohibition on alcohol at outdoor stadia shortly before the season began.

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
TeamGPWLTPtsPFPADivStk
Edmonton Eskimos 161150225443235–3W1 Details
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 161150224443525–3L2 Details
Calgary Stampeders 16961194034404–4W1 Details
BC Lions 16970184493903–5W1 Details
Saskatchewan Roughriders 16691134274363–5L2 Details
East Division
TeamGPWLTPtsPFPADivStk
Toronto Argonauts 16961194264264–2W2 Details
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 16871173964015–1W1 Details
Ottawa Rough Riders 165110102675182–4L1 Details
Montreal Concordes 16214042415061–5L7 Details
  • Bold text means that they had clinched the playoffs.
  • Edmonton and Toronto had first round byes.

Grey Cup playoffs

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, Ontario
         
E3 Ottawa Rough Riders 7
East
E1 Toronto Argonauts 44
E3 Ottawa Rough Riders 30
E2 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 20
E1 Toronto Argonauts 16
W1 Edmonton Eskimos 32
W2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 21
West
W1 Edmonton Eskimos 24
W3 Calgary Stampeders 3
W2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24

CFL leaders

1982 CFL All-Stars

Offense

Defense

Special teams

1982 Western All-Stars

Offence

Defence

Special teams

1982 Eastern All-Stars

Offence

Defence

Special teams

1982 CFL awards

References

  1. ↑ "CFL – NBC". Archived from the original on 21 October 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
  2. ↑ "CFLapedia".
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