The New York Giants season was the franchise's 58th season in the National Football League, but was shortened to nine games due to the 1982 NFL Players Strike.
The season saw the Giants attempting to improve on a 9–7 record from 1981, a season in which they had made the playoffs for the first time since 1963 and also clinched their first winning record since 1972. However, the Giants stumbled out the gates early, starting 0–2 before the strike occurred. After the strike ended, the Giants won four of their last seven games, but missed the playoffs because of losing two tiebreakers against the Saints and the Lions (who both ended with identical 4–5 records). The Giants lost the tiebreakers based on best conference record. The Lions went 4–4 against NFC teams, while the Giants and Saints both went 3–5 against NFC teams. The Lions won the tiebreaker over the Saints, thus eliminating the Saints and Giants from playoff contention and putting the Lions into the playoffs as the final wild card spot in the NFC. This was the nineteenth season out of the last twenty that the Giants missed the playoffs.
Offseason
NFL draft Round Pick Player Position School 1 18 Butch WoolfolkRunning backUniversity of Michigan 2 45 Joe MorrisRunning back Syracuse University 3 – – – – 4 102 Gerry Raymond Guard Boston College 5 129 Rich Umphrey Center Colorado 6 156 Darrell Nicholson Linebacker North Carolina 7 186 Jeff Wiska Guard Michigan State 8 213 Robert Hubble Tight end Rice 9 240 John Higgins Defensive back UNLV 10 270 Rich Baldinger Tackle Wake Forest 11 – – – – 12 323 Mark Seale Defensive tackle Richmond
Personnel
Staff
Roster
Regular season
Schedule Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance Recap 1 September 12 Atlanta Falcons L 14–16 0–1 Giants Stadium 74,286 Recap 2 September 20 Green Bay Packers L 19–27 0–2 Giants Stadium 68,405 Recap 3 at Pittsburgh Steelers Cancelled due to the 1982 NFL strike 4 at Dallas Cowboys 5 St. Louis Cardinals 6 Cincinnati Bengals 7 at Philadelphia Eagles Rescheduled to January 2 8 Dallas CowboysCancelled due to the 1982 NFL strike 9 at Cleveland Browns 10 at Los Angeles Rams 11 November 21 Washington Redskins L 17–27 0–3 Giants Stadium 70,766Recap 12 November 25 at Detroit Lions W 13–6 1–3 Pontiac Silverdome 64,348Recap 13 December 5 Houston Oilers W 17–14 2–3 Giants Stadium 71,184 Recap 14 December 11 Philadelphia Eagles W 23–7 3–3 Giants Stadium 66,053Recap 15 December 19 at Washington Redskins L 14–15 3–4 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium50,030Recap 16 December 26 at St. Louis Cardinals L 21–24 3–5 Busch Stadium39,824Recap 17 January 2 at Philadelphia Eagles W 26–24 4–5 Veterans Stadium55,797Recap Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Standings
Season summary
Week 12 at Lions
Week 14 vs Eagles
Week 17 at Eagles
Ray Perkins last game as Giants head coach
See also List of New York Giants seasons
References
External links 1982 New York Giants on Pro-Football-Reference.com New York Giants on jt-sw.com