It could be the political face-off of the year -- but not at the ballot box.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to a one-on-one basketball matchup on Twitter Thursday morning, with a lot riding on the outcome.
". @GlennYoungkin let's go one on one, winner gets the new FBI headquarters," Moore said, alongside a video of him making a shot from the free throw line on the Washington Wizards court.
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Youngkin accepted, posting a gif from his own 2021 campaign trail video where he can be seen making a shot from the three-point line on an outdoor court.
"Game on!" Youngkin replied in the tweet.
The stakes of the game: whether the FBI's new headquarters, currently being location-scouted by the General Services Administration, should be built in Maryland or Virginia.
On Wednesday, Maryland had a private meeting with the GSA to pitch Prince George's County as the location for the new building. Virginia had a private meeting to pitch Springfield on Thursday.
Wherever the headquarters end up, it will be the biggest project in the history of the GSA.
A one-on-one matchup between the two states' governors wouldn't actually determine where the headquarters go. But the hypothetical game does raise interesting questions.
Youngkin is 6-feet-7-inches tall and played forward for Rice University when he was in college.
Moore is 6-feet-1-inch tall, and while he played football at Johns Hopkins University -- not basketball -- he did have basketball scholarship options heading into college.
