The last multi-purpose stadium is officially dead. Meet the man who watched over it.

Groundskeepers for the Oakland A's converted the field of the Oakland Coliseum from a baseball to a football field.

Groundskeepers for the Oakland A's converted the field of the Oakland Coliseum from a baseball to a football field.

Click through the slideshow above to see the Coliseum change from a baseball field to a football field for the last time.

The A’s had a problem, and A’s head groundskeeper Clay Wood had a crazy solution.

“I have no idea if it would work,” he said.

It was 1996.