Super Bowl 2012 Score: Patriots Doomed by Low-Scoring Affair

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots fell right into Tom Coughlin's trap. They found themselves involved in just the low-scoring affair that the Giants wanted and found themselves on the losing end of yet another Super Bowl.

The Giants dropped the Patriots, 21-17, and fed Bill Belichick's Patriots another Super Bowl loss.

The Patriots thrive in a shootout scenario. While the Giants can compete in a such a game, they are at their best in low-scoring affairs.

The Patriots scored 30 or more points in eight out of their last 10 games leading into the Super Bowl. New England's 10-game win streak was snapped, and this wasn't the game to score 17 points.

Including the postseason, the Giants have only scored over 30 five times. A defensive struggle took the Pats out of their element and put New York in its comfort zone.

It was a shootout at the end and Ahmad Bradshaw made the game a bit more interesting by scoring the go-ahead touchdown and putting the ball in Brady's hands with time on the clock, rather than kneeling on the 1-yard line.

Even so, the Giants won a hard-fought battle by silencing the Patriots' usually high-scoring offense.

Manning walked away with the MVP and in the Year of the Quarterback, it was a defensive struggle that handed the Giants a victory.