Calling Marshawn Lynch a "Seattle Sea Chicken" will not go unnoticed.

An apparently inebriated and overzealous football fan taunted Lynch repeatedly with the nickname while the Seattle Seahawks running back was leaving a San Francisco bar, TMZ reports. While Lynch kept his cool, his entourage responded. 

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No word on who landed the first punch, but Beast Mode stepped in to break up the fight, witnesses say, throwing a few bows of his own. Everyone eventually walked away and so far there are no reports of anyone being seriously harmed.

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