The technology in use Sunday as the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers square off in Tampa, Fla., would probably be unrecognizable to the Port of 25 years ago, who had recently begun working for the NFL.

"I have seen a lot of changes over the years. The technology becomes more and more important," Port said in a phone interview Friday.

At Port's first Super Bowl "it was a terminal host-based system over slow communication links, and now everything is ," Port said. "The information that the media requires to do their job and the services we need to provide require high-speed networks to deliver video, voice and data."

The most challenging and also most valuable transition in recent years has been the move from wired to wireless networks to support Super Bowl operations, Port said.