The 1982 NFL season was the 63rd regular season of the National Football League. A 57-day-long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbreviated nine game schedule. Because of the shortened season, the NFL adopted a special 16-team playoff tournament; division standings were ignored (although each division except the NFC West sent at least two teams to the playoffs, and the NFC Central sent four of five). Eight teams from each conference were seeded 1–8 based on their regular season records. Two teams qualified for the playoffs despite losing records. The season ended with Super Bowl XVII when the Washington Redskins defeated the Miami Dolphins.
Before the season, a verdict was handed down against the league in the trial brought by the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum back in 1980. The jury ruled that the NFL violated antitrust laws when it declined to approve the proposed move by the team from Oakland, California to Los Angeles. Thus, the league was forced to let the officially renamed Los Angeles Raiders play in the second largest city in the United States.
For the start of the 1982 season, the Minnesota Vikings moved from Metropolitan Stadium to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_NFL_season.

Final Stats:

Rank	Team	Coach	Top QB	Top RB	Top WR
Champion 8 1	Washington Redskins	Joe Gibbs	Joe Theismann	John Riggins	Charlie Brown
Runner-Up 7 2	Miami Dolphins	Don Shula	David Woodley	Andra Franklin	Jimmy Cefalo
ConfChamp 6 3	Dallas Cowboys	Tom Landry	Danny White	Tony Dorsett	Tony Hill
ConfChamp 6 3	New York Jets	Walt Michaels	Richard Todd	Freeman McNeil	Wesley Walker
Division 5 3 1	Green Bay Packers	Bart Starr	Lynn Dickey	Eddie Lee Ivery	James Lofton
Division 8 1	Los Angeles Raiders	Tom Flores	Jim Plunkett	Marcus Allen	Cliff Branch
Division 6 3	San Diego Chargers	Don Coryell	Dan Fouts	Chuck Muncie	Wes Chandler
Division 5 4	Minnesota Vikings	Bud Grant	Tommy Kramer	Ted Brown	Sammy White
WildCard 6 3	Pittsburgh Steelers	Chuck Noll	Terry Bradshaw	Franco Harris	John Stallworth
WildCard 5 4	Atlanta Falcons	Leeman Bennett	Steve Bartkowski	William Andrews	William Andrews
WildCard 7 2	Cincinnati Bengals	Forrest Gregg	Ken Anderson	Pete Johnson	Cris Collinsworth
WildCard 5 4	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	John McKay	Doug Williams	James Wilder	Jimmie Giles
WildCard 5 4	St. Louis Cardinals	Jim Hanifan	Neil Lomax	Ottis Anderson	Pat Tilley
WildCard 5 4	New England Patriots	Ron Meyer	Steve Grogan	Tony Collins	Stanley Morgan
WildCard 4 5	Cleveland Browns	Sam Rutigliano	Brian Sipe	Mike Pruitt	Ozzie Newsome
WildCard 4 5	Detroit Lions	Monte Clark	Gary Danielson	Billy Sims	Billy Sims
4 5	New York Giants	Ray Perkins	Scott Brunner	Butch Woolfolk	Johnny Perkins
4 5	Buffalo Bills	Chuck Knox	Joe Ferguson	Joe Cribbs	Frank Lewis
4 5	New Orleans Saints	Bum Phillips	Ken Stabler	George Rogers	Jeff Groth
4 5	Seattle Seahawks	Mike McCormack	Jim Zorn	Sherman Smith	Steve Largent
3 6	San Francisco 49ers	Bill Walsh	Joe Montana	Jeff Moore	Dwight Clark
3 6	Philadelphia Eagles	Dick Vermeil	Ron Jaworski	Wilbert Montgomery	Harold Carmichael
3 6	Kansas City Chiefs	Marv Levy	Bill Kenney	Joe Delaney	Henry Marshall
3 6	Chicago Bears	Mike Ditka	Jim McMahon	Walter Payton	Emery Moorehead
2 7	Los Angeles Rams	Ray Malavasi	Vince Ferragamo	Wendell Tyler	Preston Dennard
2 7	Denver Broncos	Dan Reeves	Steve DeBerg	Gerald Willhite	Steve Watson
1 8	Houston Oilers	Ed Biles	Gifford Nielsen	Earl Campbell	Dave Casper
0 8 1	Baltimore Colts	Frank Kush	Mike Pagel	Randy McMillan	Matt Bouza