EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- In the long and winding 54-year history of the franchise, the Minnesota Vikings have won exactly one game when playing at the Miami Dolphins. That victory came 38 years ago, on Dec. 11, 1976, followed by losses in 1982, 1988 and 2006.

(I'll spare you the usual quotes of gas prices and Billboard rankings at the time of that win. Sorry. Cliché bank is empty today.)

Is it particularly difficult for a Minnesota team that practices predominantly indoors to play a late-season game in the heat of South Florida? It's a reasonable theory, considering the Vikings absorbed a December loss in 1982 and another one in November 2006.

So with a high of 21 degrees Wednesday in Minneapolis, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer closed the doors of the team's indoor facility and cranked the industrial heaters. His goal was to ramp it up to 80 degrees, but during the portion of practice open to reporters, the temperature in the 22-year-old building was 67 degrees.

Sunday's high in Miami is expected to be 79 degrees with mostly sunny skies.

Zimmer has prepared the coaching staff to rotate players a bit more than normal Sunday, but he doesn't want to make it too big of a deal, either.

"I don't know," he said. "It seems like an old guy like me, the cold affects me a lot more [than the heat]. I don't know about the players."

Note: Vikings defensive tackle Sharif Floyd returned to practice Wednesday. I didn't see linebacker Anthony Barr (knee), safety Robert Blanton (ankle/knee), guard Charlie Johnson (ankle) or tight end Kyle Rudolph (ankle/knee) on the field, either.