A group of M.M. Robinson High School students will be on TV during Canadian coverage of the Super Bowl.

Carolyn French, a teacher at MMR and manager and director of the school’s competitive percussion group called Drumline, said her collection of drummers and other percussionists recently filmed a commercial spot that will appear during this weekend’s NFL championship game.

The telecast starts at 6:30 p.m.

The short ad will debut on CTV this Sunday (Feb. 2). It is a promotional piece for The Sports Network (TSN) highlighting upcoming TV coverage of the wildly popular American college basketball tournament dubbed March Madness.

MMR’s participation in the TSN ad occurred on Jan. 24. French said she had been contacted by a CTV producer just two days earlier and scrambled to get her charges together on short notice during exam period.

She was able to muster 27 of Drumline’s 30 members and got them to show up at the CTV studio in Scarborough for a day of filming that will be edited down to less than a minute of actual airplay.

“It took a long time for a short commercial but it was really cool,” said French, who runs Drumline. Her husband Andrew Thies composes the music for the group. He edited some sound clips for the commercial.

“The set looked like a steam punk leaderboard. It was very artsy and creative,’ said French, noting Drumline members wore their traditional red uniforms.

French said she was told as many as six million viewers might see the ad.

She said there was another M.M. Robinson connection to the commercial noting recent MMR graduate Mike Fisher did some filming and worked as a production assistant on it.