A 57-day players' strike reduced the 1982 season to a 9 game schedule. For the post-season, division standings were ignored and eight teams from each conference were seeded based on their regular season records.
1982 Regular Season Results | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Opponent | Result | Score | OT | Record | ||||||||||||||
| 9/12 | at Denver | W | 23-3 | 1-0 | |||||||||||||||
| 9/19 | at Kansas City | L | 12-19 | 1-1 | |||||||||||||||
| 11/22 | at Los Angeles | L | 24-28 | 1-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 11/28 | vs Denver | W | 30-20 | 2-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/5 | at Cleveland | W | 30-13 | 3-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/11 | at San Francisco | W | 41-37 | 4-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/20 | vs Cincinnati | W | 50-34 | 5-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 12/26 | vs Baltimore | W | 44-26 | 6-2 | |||||||||||||||
| 1/2 | vs Los Angeles | L | 34-41 | 6-3 | |||||||||||||||