While groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of Winter for the United States, he stayed away from any prognostication about Sunday's Super Bowl game.

More than 40,000 people braved a sunny but cold morning to celebrate Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The groundhog's handlers had said the fat, furry rodent would also predict the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI, but that was when two Pennsylvania teams had a chance of making the game.

Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles are not in the game, Phil has shied way from making any call on Sunday's game between St. Louis and New England.

German superstition holds that if an animal sees its shadow on February second, the Christian holiday of Candlemas, then bad weather is in store. A shadow means six more weeks of winter.

Some information for this report provided by AP.

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