1982 CFL season
East champions	Toronto Argonauts
West champions	Edmonton Eskimos
70th Grey Cup
Date	November 28, 1982
Champions	Edmonton Eskimos
CFL seasons
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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.

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 Ontarian Legislature 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 view talk
Team	GP	W	L	T	Pts	PF	PA	Div	Stk
Edmonton Eskimos	16	11	5	0	22	544	323	5–3	W1	Details
Winnipeg Blue Bombers	16	11	5	0	22	444	352	5–3	L2	Details
Calgary Stampeders	16	9	6	1	19	403	440	4–4	W1	Details
BC Lions	16	9	7	0	18	449	390	3–5	W1	Details
Saskatchewan Roughriders	16	6	9	1	13	427	436	3–5	L2	Details

East Division view talk
Team	GP	W	L	T	Pts	PF	PA	Div	Stk
Toronto Argonauts	16	9	6	1	19	426	426	4–2	W2	Details
Hamilton Tiger-Cats	16	8	7	1	17	396	401	5–1	W1	Details
Ottawa Rough Riders	16	5	11	0	10	267	518	2–4	L1	Details
Montreal Concordes	16	2	14	0	4	241	506	1–5	L7	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

• CFL Passing Leaders
• CFL Rushing Leaders
• CFL Receiving Leaders ^[2]

1982 CFL All-Stars

Special teams

• P – Ken Clark, Saskatchewan Roughriders
• K – Dave Ridgway, Saskatchewan Roughriders

1982 Western All-Stars

Special teams

• P – Ken Clark, Saskatchewan Roughriders
• K – Dave Ridgway, Saskatchewan Roughriders

1982 Eastern All-Stars

Special teams

• P – Bernie Ruoff, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• K – Gerry Organ, Ottawa Rough Riders

1982 CFL Awards

• CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award – Condredge Holloway (QB), Toronto Argonauts
• CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award – Rocky DiPietro (SB), Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award – James "Quick" Parker (LB), Edmonton Eskimos
• CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award – Rudy Phillips (OG), Ottawa Rough Riders
• CFL's Most Outstanding Rookie Award – Chris Isaac (QB), Ottawa Rough Riders
• CFLPA's Outstanding Community Service Award – David Boone (DE), Edmonton Eskimos
• CFL's Coach of the Year – Bob O'Billovich, Toronto Argonauts

References