Another Missed Kick Decides It : Pro Bowl: AFC’s Kelly is on winning side this time, 23-21, when Dolphins’ Cross blocks Andersen’s field goal.

Jim Kelly had a better Sunday to finish off the NFL season.

The Buffalo Bills’ quarterback threw two touchdown passes, the second a 13-yarder to Ernest Givins of the Houston Oilers with 1:49 remaining, to give the AFC a 23-21 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl on Sunday.

Unlike last week’s Super Bowl, Kelly was on the other side when a team failed to kick a game-winning field goal in the final seconds. Last week, it was Buffalo’s Scott Norwood who failed on a 47-yarder as Buffalo lost to the New York Giants, 20-19.

Sunday night, it was the NFC’s Morten Andersen of New Orleans who failed to come through, when his 46-yarder was blocked with seven seconds to play by Miami’s Jeff Cross.

“I thought, ‘Oh, no,’ not another one-point loss,” Kelly said. “Man, I’m glad the kick went our way today.”

Kelly, a frustrated sideline onlooker in the Super Bowl as the Giants’ time-consuming offense controlled the ball, completed 13 of 19 passes for 210 yards in the Pro Bowl while splitting playing time with the Oilers’ Warren Moon.

Kelly’s other touchdown pass was a 20-yard to Buffalo teammate Andre Reed early in the final quarter.

“I would love to have been the MVP a week earlier,” Kelly said. “But this feels good.”

Detroit’s Barry Sanders, the NFL’s leading rusher this season, ran 22 yards for a touchdown with 5:11 remaining to give the NFC a 21-13 lead.

Nick Lowery of Kansas City then pulled the AFC to within 21-16 with his third field goal of the game, a 34-yarder with 2:58 remaining.

Kelly and Reed hooked up on their scoring pass to pull the AFC to within 14-13 early in the final quarter. Kelly threaded the ball perfectly between two NFC defenders for the touchdown.

A 33-yard pass from Kelly to Anthony Miller of the San Diego Chargers was a key play in the AFC’s touchdown drive, moving the ball to the NFC 42-yard line.

Phoenix rookie Johnny Johnson scored two touchdowns for the NFC on runs of one and nine yards.

Johnson gave the NFC a 14-6 lead with his second touchdown of the game, with 1:04 remaining in the third quarter.

Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers provided the big play on the drive to the second NFC touchdown, grabbing a pass after Rod Woodson of the Pittsburgh Steelers bobbled the ball as he tried for an interception. The play covered 49 yards, and Johnson scored on the next play.

Johnson, who rushed for 926 yards this season despite missing most of three games with an ankle injury, gave the NFC a 7-3 lead when he dove over from a yard out 43 seconds before halftime.

The Rams’ Jim Everett, who replaced San Francisco’s injured Joe Montana on the NFC roster, completed all six of his passes in the second quarter and directed the 80-yard touchdown drive after taking over for starter Randall Cunningham of Philadelphia.

“We did a lot of things right, but when the game comes down to the last second, something like that’s going to happen,” said Everett, who completed 13 of 18 passes for 138 yards and marched the NFC down the field to set up Andersen’s last attempt.

“It was an impressive effort on both sides. Unfortunately, they got the better end of it.”

Buffalo end Bruce Smith was a defensive standout for the AFC, with three sacks and a blocked field goal.

“I wasn’t on vacation all week,” Smith said. “People thought we were taking it lightly this week, but once you get out there and start competing, no one’s taking it lightly.”

Buffalo’s Thurman Thomas ran for a game-high 38 yards in seven carries and caught four passes for 36 yards.